Authors

Boris Paramonov

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2012

First page number:

1

Last page number:

30

Abstract

Russia's 75 year-long experiment with communism is over, but the question persists as to whether the Soviet regime was a historical aberration or an expression of the country's destiny. This question is as old as the Bolshevik revolution. It has produced a voluminous literature and will no doubt continue to attract attention in the near future. Alas, it can not be answered conclusively, for it is grounded in the questioner's ideological a priori and tells us more about the historian's biases than about Russian history.

Keywords

Communism and culture; History; Russia; Soviet Union

Disciplines

Asian History | European History | History | Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures | Political History | Slavic Languages and Societies | Social History

Language

English


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