Revolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991 : a history

Summary: Presenting a new perspective on the Russian Revolution, a noted historian traces three generational phases to show how the revolution, while it changed in form and character, retained the same idealistic goals throughout.

Record details

ISBN: 9780805091311 (hardcover)
ISBN: 0805091319 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780805095982 (electronic copy)
Physical Description: print
viii, 324 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First U.S. Edition.
Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The start -- The "dress rehearsal" -- Last hopes -- War and revolution -- The February Revolution -- Lenin's revolution -- Civil War and the making of the Soviet system -- Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin -- The revolution's golden age? -- The great break -- Stalin's crisis -- Communism in retreat? -- The great terror -- Revolution for export -- War and revolution -- Revolution and Cold War -- The beginning of the end -- Mature socialism -- The last Bolshevik -- Judgement.