Soviet Roulette

This blog tracks my personal obsession with the Soviet revolutionary experience. Soviet Roulette is a diary, intellectual journal, series of creative writing exercises, notes for a novel, reading list, therapeutic enterprise, autobiography, extended love letter to Russia, forum for informal book reviews, chaotic sketch of a course syllabus, and "tribute band" to Russia's best historians.

About Me

Fur Coat: The author studied European history at Georgetown University, McGill University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed his doctorate in management at the University of Maryland. He is currently the dean of arts and sciences at a community college in Illinois. Views expressed on the blog are his own. The author welcomes ideas for academic or creative collaboration.

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S.A. Smith's The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

Hannah Arendt's On Revolution Revisited

Jack Goldstone's Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction

George Saunders' A Swim in the Pond in the Rain

Vivian Gornick's The Romance of American Communism