Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution

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Frederick C. Corney. Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xviii, 301 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95, cloth. $22.50, paper.

Modern sensitivity to narrative strategies and linguistic tropes only recently began spreading to the study of the Bolshevik Revolution, a field that has long been marked by extreme partisanship and fierce debates over the legitimacy of the Soviet state. Inspired in part by new scholarship on the French Revolution, pioneering articles by S. A. Smith and Ronald Grigor Suny were ...

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