Telling October : : Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution /

Telling October : : Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution / / Frederick Corney.

All revolutionary regimes seek to legitimize themselves through foundation narratives that, told and retold, become constituent parts of the social fabric, erasing or pushing aside alternative histories. Frederick C. Corney draws on a wide range of sources—archives, published works, films—to explore...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Corney, Frederick,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2004
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 20 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Writing the Event
  • Part 1. THE DRAMA OF OCTOBER
  • 1. The Power of the Story
  • 2. The Drama of Power
  • 3. Apotheosis of October
  • Part 2. THE MEMORY OF OCTOBER
  • 4. Istpart and the Institutionalization of Memory
  • 5. "How Not to Write the History of October"
  • 6. The Lessons of October: The Twentieth Anniversary of 1905
  • 7. Truth and Poetry: The Tenth Anniversary of October
  • Conclusion: Experiencing October
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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