The Bolsheviks In Russian Society

Author : Vladimir Brovkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300146345

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The Bolsheviks in Russian Society by Vladimir Brovkin Pdf

Was the Bolshevik success in Russia during the revolution and civil war years a legitimate expression of the will of the people? Or did Russian workers, peasants, bourgeoisie, and upper-class groups pose numerous challenges to Bolshevik authority, challenges that were put down through unyielding repression? In this book distinguished scholars from East and West draw on recently opened archives to challenge the commonly held view that the Bolsheviks enjoyed widespread support and that their early history was simply a march toward inevitable victory. They show instead that during this period Russian society was at war with itself and with the Bolsheviks. Authors discuss such previously neglected subjects as government policies toward women and toward religious institutions, the protests of workers and peasants, and the anti-Bolshevik movements and parties. In particular, they investigate the actions of other political parties and White leaders, the peasant rebellions and workers' strikes, Bolshevik operations against the church, attitudes toward peasant and working-class women, and new data on Lenin (the last in a chapter by Richard Pipes). Describing not one civil war but several social, political, and military confrontations going on simultaneously, they portray a Russia in turmoil and an outcome that was by no means inevitable.

Author : Vladimir N. Brovkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0300067062

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The Bolsheviks in Russian Society by Vladimir N. Brovkin Pdf

In this book distinguished scholars from East and West draw on recently opened archives to challenge the commonly held view that the Bolsheviks enjoyed widespread support and that their early history was simply a march toward inevitable victory. They show instead that during this period Russian society was at war with itself and with the Bolsheviks. Authors discuss such previously neglected subjects as government policies toward women and toward religious institutions, the protests of workers and peasants, and the anti-Bolshevik movements and parties. Describing not one civil war but several social, political, and military confrontations going on simultaneously, they portray a Russia in turmoil and on outcome that was by no means inevitable.

Author : Tomila V. Lankina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316512678

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The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia by Tomila V. Lankina Pdf

Lankina traces the origins of Russia's inequalities over the past two centuries from the Tsarist institution of estates, through communism, to the present day.

Author : Vladimir Brovkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134680573

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Russia After Lenin by Vladimir Brovkin Pdf

Following the Russian Revolution, the cultural and political landscape of Russia was strewn with contradictions. The dictatorship, censorship and repression of the Communist party existed alongside private enterprise, the black market and open debates on Socialism. In Russian Society and politics 1921-1929 Vladimir Brovkin offers a comprehensive cultural, political, economic and social history of developments in Russia in the 1920's. By examining the contrast between Bolshevik propaganda claims and social reality, the author explains how Communist representations were variously received and resisted by workers, peasants, students, women, teachers and party officials. He presents a picture of cultural diversity and rejection of Communist constraints through many means including unauthorised protest, religion, jazz music and poetry. In Russian Society and Politics 1921-1929 Vladimir Brovkin argues that these trends, if left unchecked, endangered the Communist Party's monopoly on political power. The Stalinist revolution can thus be seen as a pre-emptive strike against this independent and vibrant society as well as a product of Stalin's personality and communist ideology.

Author : Jane Burbank
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195364477

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Intelligentsia and Revolution by Jane Burbank Pdf

Over the five years following the Russian revolution of 1917 there occurred a brilliant outburst of theory and criticism among Russian intellectuals struggling to comprehend their country's vast social upheaval. Much of their intense speculation focused on issues that are still hotly debated: Was this socialism? Why had the revolution happened in Russia? What did Bolshevik power mean for Russia and the Western world? This compelling study recovers these early responses to 1917 and analyzes the specific ideological context out of which they emerged. Jane Burbank explores the ideas and experiences of diverse prominent intellectuals, ranging from the monarchists on the right to the Mensheviks, Socialist revolutionaries, and Anarchists on the left. Following these thinkers through the turbulent years of civil war and rebuilding of state power, Burbank shows how revolution both revitalized their political culture and exposed the fragile basis of its existence.

Author : Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521812276

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The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689 by Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.

Author : Yuri Slezkine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400888177

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The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine Pdf

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine’s gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin’s purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children’s loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union. Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building’s residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.

Author : Adam Bruno ULAM,Adam Bruno Ulam
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674044531

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The Bolsheviks by Adam Bruno ULAM,Adam Bruno Ulam Pdf

The rise of the Bolsheviks is an epic Russian story that now has a definitive end. The major historian of the subject, Adam Ulam, has enlarged his classic work with a new Preface that puts the revolutionary moment, and especially Lenin, in perspective for our modern age.

Author : Joint Committee on Slavic Studies (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Russia
ISBN : UCAL:B4260101

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The Transformation of Russian Society by Joint Committee on Slavic Studies (U.S.) Pdf

Scholarly papers by 38 contributors on changes in Russian society since 1861, presented at a conference of the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies.

Author : Diane P. Koenker,William G. Rosenberg,Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015015504924

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Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War by Diane P. Koenker,William G. Rosenberg,Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

"This volume is a valuable source of information that also represents a genuinely collaborative approach to understanding Soviet history. The collection is so rich that every scholar and teacher of Soviet history will want to consult it. Highly recommended." —Choice "Documentation of this well-edited volume is exhaustive. It can be highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate students and specialists." —History "This is a surprisingly readable, well-structured book that is an absolute necessity for a college library as well as a useful addition to a scholar's personal library." —Perspectives on Political Science " . . . essential reading . . . abundant empirical research and fresh interpretations." —The Russian Review To what extent were the social responses and political choices of the Civil War years the product of social and economic circumstances and to what extent were they the result of the independent exercise of conscious political will? This landmark volume presents the leading edge of current scholarship on the social history of the Russian Civil War.

Author : Liliana Riga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139789301

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The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire by Liliana Riga Pdf

This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities - Ukrainians, Latvians, Georgians, Jews and others - this book examines the shared experiences of assimilation and socioethnic exclusion that underlay their class universalism. It suggests that imperial policies toward the Empire's diversity radicalized class and ethnicity as intersectional experiences, creating an assimilated but excluded elite: lower-class Russians and middle-class minorities universalized particular exclusions as they disproportionately sustained the economic and political burdens of maintaining the multiethnic Russian Empire. The Bolsheviks' social identities and routes to revolutionary radicalism show especially how a class-universalist politics was appealing to those seeking secularism in response to religious tensions, a universalist politics where ethnic and geopolitical insecurities were exclusionary, and a tolerant 'imperial' imaginary where Russification and illiberal repressions were most keenly felt.

Author : Leslie Herzberger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781413477153

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Why the Soviet Union Came Apart, 1917-1991: a Case Study by Leslie Herzberger Pdf

Author : Vladimir N. Brovkin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Mensheviks
ISBN : 0801499763

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The Mensheviks After October by Vladimir N. Brovkin Pdf

"The Fullest account to date of the Menshevik party during the first year of Soviet rule. Focusing on the period from October 1917 through October 1918, months when the Soviet political system still permitted a degree of electoral competition among political parties, he explores the moderate socialists' opposition to the Bolsheviks"--back cover.

Author : Alan Woods
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781900007856

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Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution by Alan Woods Pdf

There have been many books and potted histories of the Russian Revolution, either written from an anti-Bolshevik perspective, or its Stalinist mirror image, which paint a false account of the rise of Bolshevism. For them, Bolshevism is either a historical "accident" or "tragedy." Or it is portrayed erroneously as the work of one great man (Lenin) who marched single-minded toward the October Revolution. Author Alan Woods* reveals the real evolution of Bolshevism as a living struggle of various class forces, tendencies and individuals. Using a wealth of primary sources, Woods uncovers the fascinating growth and development of Bolshevism in pre-revolutionary Russia up to the seizure of power in October 1917. This is the second, expanded US edition of this monumental work. It comes at an important time, as the world economic crisis calls for a thorough study of working class history in order to educate a new generation of revolutionaries.

Author : Gregory Carleton
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822970873

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Sexual Revolution in Bolshevik Russia by Gregory Carleton Pdf

A comprehensive literary and social history of sexual attitudes and mores in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, that reveals the complex and often contradictory impulses and ideas that permeated the culture.