Ideologies and Illusions : : Revolutionary Thought from Herzen to Solzhenitsyn / / Adam B. Ulam.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Ulam, Adam B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; I: The beginnings --; Bakunin, Herzen, and Chernyshevsky --; Socialism and Utopia --; The Marxist Pattern --; II: Men in power --; Lenin's last phase --; Lenin's Legacy --; Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky --; Stalin --; The uses of Revolution --; Titoism --; III: Internationalism and Foreign Affairs --; Marxist Doctrine --; Communist Doctrine and Soviet Diplomacy --; The Perils of Khrushchev --; The 1966 Congress --; The Post-Khrushchev era --; Moscow plays the balance --; The Soviet Union and the International Game --; The convolutions of terror --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674865686; 9783110353488; 9783110353563; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674865686
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Adam B. Ulam.

In a book of keen perception and vast sweep, a foremost scholar examines one hundred years of Russian revolutionary thought and the men who shaped and were caught up in it. Adam Ulam displays an unusual ability to penetrate the core of the Soviet mind as it evolved and was encapsulated in history. Why did the Russians sign a treaty with Hitler? Why did they build a Berlin Wall, rattle missiles, and then sign a nuclear-test-ban treaty with President Kennedy? Why do they fear Titoism? Why was detente fostered when Nixon was president? By reflecting on the psychology, ideology, and frenetic activity of revolutionary Russians, Ulam leads us to answers. Ulam's ability to explain events by tracing the continuities in the Russian mentality makes this work a special achievement in Soviet studies and intellectual history.