Yuri Slezkine is a professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley and a senior research fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. His latest books are The Jewish Century and The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution.
‘Bolshevism, like most millenarian movements, proved a one-generation phenomenon.’
Yuri Slezkine on Soviet history and the generational arc of revolution.
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