Telling October - Frederick C Corney

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ENG Telling October examines the rich and accretive processes by which the new Soviet regime sought to construct the events of 1917 as a major revolutionary event, indeed a foundation event, for the new Communist state. As a memory project, it sought to socialize generations of Soviet citizens into an understanding of October as just such a watershed event. Although by no means completely successful, these efforts still leave their traces today in modern Russia. RUS К...

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Frederick Corney is Professor of History at William & Mary. He earned his Ph.D. in Russian/Soviet history from Columbia University in New York. He also spent several years working as a professional translator in the UK and Germany. He specializes in the early revolutionary history of Soviet Russia, with an emphasis on the politics of cultural memory production. He has produced edited English translations of a literary polemic surrounding Lev Trotskii (Trotsky's Challenge: The 'Literary Discussion' and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution) with Brill in 2015, and of Л...