The Red Flag: A History of Communism

by Priestland, David

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  BRONZE HORSEMEN

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  T. Hasegawa, The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917 (Seattle, Wash., 1981).

  P. Holquist, Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis, 1914–1921 (Cambridge, Mass., 2002).

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  S. Morrissey, Heralds of Revolution: Russian Students and the Mythologies of Radicalism (New York, 1998).

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  R. Wortman, Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, Vol. 2: From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II (Princeton, 2000).

  UNDER WESTERN EYES

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  D. Kirby, War, Peace and Revolution. International Socialism at the Crossroads 1914–1918 (New York, 1986).

  B. Kovrig, Communism in Hungary. From Kun to Kádár (Stanford, 1979).

  W. Leonhard, Child of the Revolution, trans. C. M. Woodhouse (London, 1979).

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  K.-M. Mallmann, Kommunisten in der Weimarer Republik. Sozialgeschichte einer revolutionären Bewegung (Darmstadt, 1996).

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  R. Wohl, French Communism in the Making, 1914–1924 (Stanford, 1966).

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  MEN OF STEEL

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  M. David-Fox, Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929 (Ithaca, 1997).

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  S. Fitzpatrick, Stalin’s Peasants. Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization (Oxford, 1994).

  S. Fitzpatrick, A. Rabinowitch and R. Stites (eds.), Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture (Bloomington, 1991).

  V. Garros, N. Korenevskaya and T. Lahusen (eds.), Intimacy and Terror
. Soviet Diaries of the 1930s, trans. C. Flath (New York, 1995).

  J. Getty and O. Naumov, The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–1939 (New Haven, 1999).

  J. Getty and O. Naumov, Yezhov, the Rise of Stalin’s “Iron Fist” (New Haven, 2008).

  J. Hellbeck, Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin (Cambridge, Mass., 2006).

  S. Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain. Stalinism as a Civilization (Berkeley, 1995).

  V. Kravchenko, I Chose Freedom. The Personal and Political Life of a Soviet Official (London, 1947).

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  E. Naiman, Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology (Princeton, 1997).

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  E. Van Ree, The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin. A Study in Twentieth Century Revolutionary Patriotism (London, 2002).

  POPULAR FRONTS

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  J. Gaddis, We Now Know. Rethinking Cold War History (Oxford, 1997).

  G. Gorodestsky (ed.), Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917–1991. A Retrospective (London, 1994).

  H. Graham, Socialism and War: the Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis, 1936–1939 (Cambridge, 1991).

  H. Graham and P. Preston (eds.), The Popular Front in Europe (Basingstoke, 1987).

  J. T. Gross, Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland’s Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia (Princeton, 1988).

  H. Gruber, Léon Blum, French Socialism, and the Popular Front: A Case of Internal Contradictions (Ithaca, 1986).

  J. Hæstrup, Europe Ablaze: An Analysis of the History of the European Resistance Movements 1939–45 (Odense, 1978).

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  J. Jackson, The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy, 1934–38 (Cambridge, 1988).

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  THE EAST IS RED

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  Hunh Kim Khánh, Vietnamese Communism, 1925–1945 (Ithaca, 1982).

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