Contra Communism: The Soviet Union and Absolutism
Haga, a sociologist with a Ph.D. from Boston University, studies comparative case analyses and historical processes. In his book on Russian communist ideology, he argues that what has long been called “communism” in Russia was actually totalitarian absolutism. Mislabeling this system has distorted our understanding of political history. He contends that only by correctly identifying what occurred in Russia from the mid-19th century to 1991 can we truly understand communism as a historical and political phenomenon.