Notebooks for the Grandchildren : Recollections of a Supporter of the Marxist Opposition to Stalin Who Survived the Stalin Terror /
Baitalsky, Mikhail,
Notebooks for the Grandchildren : Recollections of a Supporter of the Marxist Opposition to Stalin Who Survived the Stalin Terror / Recollections of a Supporter of the Marxist Opposition to Stalin Who Survived the Stalin Terror Mikhail Baitalsky and Marilyn Vogt-Downey. - 1 online resource (612 pages) : illustrations. - Historical Materialism Book Series ; 335 Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025 . - Historical Materialism Book Series ; 335. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
These Notebooks are for you who are generations away from the great Russian Revolution of 1917 and seek to understand what went wrong. Baitalsky describes the process through the eyes of young Ukrainians like him, who came of age fighting for the Revolution but were murdered in the late 1930s as the Revolution “degenerated” under Joseph Stalin. How did Stalin come to power and manage to retain power? What did this “political counterrevolution” look like to this Ukrainian–and Jewish–communist In the 1920s and after? Arrested three times by the Stalin regime, Baitalsky survived to tell you what happened.
English
9789004707832
10.1163/9789004707832 DOI
Political persecution--Soviet Union.
Political prisoners--Soviet Union--Biography.
DK268.B277
947.085/0925
Notebooks for the Grandchildren : Recollections of a Supporter of the Marxist Opposition to Stalin Who Survived the Stalin Terror / Recollections of a Supporter of the Marxist Opposition to Stalin Who Survived the Stalin Terror Mikhail Baitalsky and Marilyn Vogt-Downey. - 1 online resource (612 pages) : illustrations. - Historical Materialism Book Series ; 335 Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025 . - Historical Materialism Book Series ; 335. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
These Notebooks are for you who are generations away from the great Russian Revolution of 1917 and seek to understand what went wrong. Baitalsky describes the process through the eyes of young Ukrainians like him, who came of age fighting for the Revolution but were murdered in the late 1930s as the Revolution “degenerated” under Joseph Stalin. How did Stalin come to power and manage to retain power? What did this “political counterrevolution” look like to this Ukrainian–and Jewish–communist In the 1920s and after? Arrested three times by the Stalin regime, Baitalsky survived to tell you what happened.
English
9789004707832
10.1163/9789004707832 DOI
Political persecution--Soviet Union.
Political prisoners--Soviet Union--Biography.
DK268.B277
947.085/0925