Revolution In Russia

Author : Stephen Anthony Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198734826

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Russia in Revolution by Stephen Anthony Smith Pdf

The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the nineteenth century, through the First World War and the revolutions of 1917 and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime, to the end of the 1920s, when Stalin simultaneously unleashed violent collectivization of agriculture and crash industrialization upon Russian society. Drawing on recent archivally-based scholarship, Russia in Revolution pays particular attention to the varying impact of the Revolution on the various groups that made up society: peasants, workers, non-Russian nationalities, the army, women and the family, young people, and the Church. In doing so, it provides a fresh way into the big, perennial questions about the Revolution and its consequences: why did the attempt by the tsarist government to implement political reform after the 1905 Revolution fail?; why did the First World War bring about the collapse of the tsarist system?; why did the attempt to create a democratic system after the February Revolution of 1917 not get off the ground?; why did the Bolsheviks succeed in seizing and holding on to power?; why did they come out victorious from a punishing civil war?; why did the New Economic Policy they introduced in 1921 fail?; and why did Stalin come out on top in the power struggle inside the Bolshevik party after Lenin's death in 1924? A final chapter then reflects on the larger significance of 1917 for the history of the twentieth century - and, for all its terrible flaws, what the promise of the Revolution might mean for us today.

Author : Neil Faulkner
Publisher : People's History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Alternative Press Collection
ISBN : 0745399037

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A People's History of the Russian Revolution by Neil Faulkner Pdf

The Russian Revolution may be the most misunderstood and misrepresented event in modern history, its history told in a mix of legends and anecdotes. In A People's History of the Russian Revolution, Neil Faulkner sets out to debunk the myths and pry fact from fiction, putting at the heart of the story the Russian people who are the true heroes of this tumultuous tale. In this fast-paced introduction, Faulkner tells the powerful narrative of how millions of people came together in a mass movement, organized democratic assemblies, mobilized for militant action, and overturned a vast regime of landlords, profiteers, and warmongers. Faulkner rejects caricatures of Lenin and the Bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators or the progenitors of Stalinist dictatorship, and forcefully argues that the Russian Revolution was an explosion of democracy and creativity--and that it was crushed by bloody counter-revolution and replaced with a form of bureaucratic state-capitalism. Grounded by powerful first-hand testimony, this history marks the centenary of the Revolution by restoring the democratic essence of the revolution, offering a perfect primer for the modern reader.

Author : Victor Serge
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608466092

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Year One of the Russian Revolution by Victor Serge Pdf

An eyewitness account of the world-changing uprising—from the author of Memoirs of a Revolutionary. “A truly remarkable individual . . . an heroic work” (Richard Allday of Counterfire). Brimming with the honesty and passionate conviction for which he has become famous, Victor Serge’s account of the first year of the Russian Revolution—through all of its achievements and challenges—captures both the heroism of the mass upsurge that gave birth to Soviet democracy and the crippling circumstances that began to chip away at its historic gains. Year One of the Russian Revolution is Serge’s attempt to defend the early days of the revolution against those, like Stalin, who would claim its legacy as justification for the repression of dissent within Russia. Praise for Victor Serge “Serge is one of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes.” —Susan Sontag, MacArthur Fellow and winner of the National Book Award “His political recollections are very important, because they reflect so well the mood of this lost generation . . . His articles and books speak for themselves, and we would be poorer without them.” —Partisan Review “I know of no other writer with whom Serge can be very usefully compared. The essence of the man and his books is to be found in his attitude to the truth.” —John Berger, Booker Prize–winning author “The novels, poems, memoirs and other writings of Victor Serge are among the finest works of literature inspired by the October Revolution that brought the working class to power in Russia in 1917.” —Scott McLemee, writer of the weekly “Intellectual Affairs” column for Inside Higher Ed

Author : Rex A. Wade
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134397631

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Revolutionary Russia by Rex A. Wade Pdf

This collection presents the major recent writings on the Russian Revolution and its context. It brings together key texts to illustrate new interpretive approaches and covers the central topics and themes. Together, the chapters in this volume form a coherent representation of both the events and the theories and debates that relate to them.

Author : Matthias Neumann,Andy Willimott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317359357

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Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide by Matthias Neumann,Andy Willimott Pdf

The Russian Revolution of 1917 has often been presented as a complete break with the past, with everything which had gone before swept away, and all aspects of politics, economy and society reformed and made new.? Recently, however, historians have increasingly come to question this view, discovering that Tsarist Russia was much more entangled in the processes of modernisation, and that the new regime contained much more continuity than has previously been acknowledged.? This book presents new research findings on a range of different aspects of Russian society, both showing how there was much change before 1917, and much continuity afterwards, and also going beyond this to show that the new Soviet regime established in the 1920s, with its vision of the New Soviet Person, was in fact based on a complicated mixture of new Soviet thinking and ideas developed before 1917 by a variety of non-Bolshevik movements.

Author : Michal Reiman
Publisher : Prager Schriften zur Zeitgeschichte und zum Zeitgeschehen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political culture
ISBN : 3631671369

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About Russia, Its Revolutions, Its Development and Its Present by Michal Reiman Pdf

The author analyzes the history of the USSR from a new perspective. Detailed examination of ideological heritage of the XIXth and XXth centuries shows new aspects of the Russian Revolution.

Author : Sean McMeekin
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782833796

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The Russian Revolution by Sean McMeekin Pdf

At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing by about 10% annually and its population had reached 150 million. By 1920 the country was in desperate financial straits and more than 20 million Russians had died. And by 1950, a third of the globe had embraced communism. The triumph of Communism sets a profound puzzle. How did the Bolsheviks win power and then cling to it amid the chaos they had created? Traditional histories remain a captive to Marxist ideas about class struggle. Analysing never before used files from the Tsarist military archives, McMeekin argues that war is the answer. The revolutionaries were aided at nearly every step by Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland who sought to benefit - politically and economically - from the changes overtaking the country. To make sense of Russia's careening path the essential question is not Lenin's "who, whom?", but who benefits?

Author : Rex A. Wade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107130326

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The Russian Revolution, 1917 by Rex A. Wade Pdf

This book explores the 1917 Russian Revolution from its February Revolution beginning to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in October.

Author : Abraham Ascher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780743882

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The Russian Revolution by Abraham Ascher Pdf

1917: the year a series of rebellions toppled three centuries of autocratic rule and placed a group of political radicals in charge of a world power. Here, suddenly, was the first modern socialist state, “a kingdom more bright that any heaven had to offer”. But the dream was short-lived, bringing in its wake seventy years of conflict and instability that nearly ended in nuclear war. How could such a revolution take place and what caused it to go so very wrong? Presenting a uniquely long view of events, Abraham Ascher takes readers from the seeds of revolution in the 1880s right through to Stalin’s state terror and the power of the communist legacy in Russia today. Original and shrewd, Ascher’s analysis offers an unparalled introduction to this watershed period in world history

Author : Rex A. Wade
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 9780415307482

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Revolutionary Russia by Rex A. Wade Pdf

Presenting major writings on the revolution and its context, bringing together key texts to illustrate interpretive approaches and covering the central topics and themes, this volume forms a coherent representation of both the events and the theories anddebates that relate to them.

Author : Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674972063

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Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Pdf

Russians from all walks of life joyously celebrated the end of Nicholas II’s monarchy, but one year later, amid widespread civil strife and lawlessness, a fearful citizenry stayed out of sight. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa offers a new perspective on Russia’s revolutionary year through the lens of violent crime and its devastating effect on ordinary people.

Author : Morgan Philips Price
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0745312055

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Dispatches from the Revolution by Morgan Philips Price Pdf

'An extraordinarily valuable compilation' Eric Hobsbawm'A man with an instinctive feel for politics' Jonathan Steele, The GuardianAs special correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, Price was one of the few Englishmen to witness all phases of the Revolution. His remarkable writings provide a first-hand account of the momentous events, and include his meetings with Lenin and the Bolshevik leaders.

Author : S. A. Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191578366

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The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by S. A. Smith Pdf

This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole—on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another. The book registers the primacy of politics, but situates political developments firmly in the context of massive economic, social, and cultural change. Since the fall of Communism there has been much reflection on the significance of the Russian Revolution. The book rejects the currently influential, liberal interpretation of the revolution in favour of one that sees it as rooted in the contradictions of a backward society which sought modernization and enlightenment and ended in political tyranny. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Anders Åslund
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9780881325379

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Russia's Capitalist Revolution by Anders Åslund Pdf

Author : China Miéville
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784782788

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October by China Miéville Pdf

Multi-award-winning author China Miéville captures the drama of the Russian Revolution in this “engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century” (Village Voice) In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world’s first workers’ state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? In a panoramic sweep, stretching from St. Petersburg and Moscow to the remotest villages of a sprawling empire, Miéville uncovers the catastrophes, intrigues and inspirations of 1917, in all their passion, drama and strangeness. Intervening in long-standing historical debates, but told with the reader new to the topic especially in mind, here is a breathtaking story of humanity at its greatest and most desperate; of a turning point for civilization that still resonates loudly today.