Red Flag Unfurled

Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny-one of the world''s leading historians of the period-explores the historiographical controversies over 1917, Stalinism, and the end of "Communism" and provides an assessment of the achievements, costs, losses and legacies of the choices made by Soviet leaders. While a quarter century after the disi...