The Third Rome: National Bolshevism In The USSR

by Mikhail Agursky, Mikhail Agursky

Genres: Russian History, Russia, History

426 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1987

Reviews

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of incredibly good and well researched information organized according to the author's unfortunate and fully evident paranoid thesis. This is one of the central texts that argues there was a "red brown" alliance in the Soviet Union, equivocating the Soviet project with Fascism. The author provides almost nothing concrete to prove that assertion other than highlighting what prominent communist figures about some peripheral figures that did skirt that line. Good only as an intellectual history if one ignores the heinous conjecture, especially valuable as one of the few (and first) texts which looks at some bizarre and colorful historical characters like Nikolay Ustryalov and Isai Lezhnev.