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Bibliographers have calculated that during the Soviet era no less than 20,000 historical works appeared on “Great October”. It was seen as the twentieth century’s principal event and a triumph of virtue over vice. Today some historians and publicists perpetuate the legend but with the signs reversed, representing the Bolshevik insurrection as the source of all the country’s misfortunes. Neither approach can be considered fruitful.
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© 2001 Alter L. Litvin and John L. H. Keep
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Litvin, A.L. (2001). The October Revolution. In: Keep, J.L.H. (eds) Writing History in Twentieth-Century Russia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403913890_3
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