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11%OFFFrederick Corney - Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolslievik Revolution - 9780801489310 - V9780801489310
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Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolslievik Revolution

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Description for Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolslievik Revolution Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.

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 the potent foundation narrative of Russia's Great October Socialist Revolution. He shows that even as it fought a bloody civil war with the forces that sought to displace it, the Bolshevik regime set about creating a new historical genealogy of which the October Revolution was the only possible culmination.

This new narrative was forged through a complex process ... Read more

Corney investigates efforts to convey the dramatic essence of 1917 as a Bolshevik story through the increasingly elaborate anniversary celebrations of 1918, 1919, and 1920. He also describes how official commissions during the 1920s sought to institutionalize this new foundation narrative as history and memory. In the book's final chapter, the author assesses the state of the October narrative at its tenth anniversary, paying particular attention to the versions presented in the celebratory films by Eisenstein and Pudovkin. A brief epilogue assesses October's fate in the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
474g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801489310
SKU
V9780801489310
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About Frederick Corney
Frederick C. Corney is Assistant Professor of History at The College of William & Mary.

Reviews for Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolslievik Revolution
A brief review can hardly do justice to this rich study, which combines extensive archival research with an innovative methodology. Arguing that memory is not innate but rather shaped in the ongoing process of its recollection and narration. Corney places the dynamic production of memory at center stage. The approach and argument are largely persuasive.... Telling October deserves a wide ... Read more

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