Red flag unfurled history historians and the russian revolution Ronald Grigor Suny.

Includes index.

Introduction: making history and the historian -- Part I. History and historians -- Back and beyond? Reversing the cultural turn -- Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century: how the West wrote its history of the USSR -- The empire strikes out: imperial Russia, national identity, and theories of empire -- Part II. Russia's revolutions -- Toward a social history of the October Revolution -- Revision and retreat in the historiography of 1917: social history and its critics -- Breaking eggs, making omelets: violence and terror in Russia's civil wars.