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A concise history of the Russian Revolution / Richard Pipes.

Pipes, Richard. (Author). Pipes, Richard. Russian Revolution. (Added Author). Pipes, Richard. Russia under the Bolshevik regime. (Added Author).

Summary:

Looks at the decay of the tsarist empire and the causes of the Revolution, discusses the aims of the Bolshevik party, and recounts the major events of the conflict.

Record details

ISBN: 0679745440
ISBN: 9780679745440
ISBN: 1439506809
ISBN: 9781439506806
Physical Description: xvii, 431 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Condensation of two volumes published originally ... as: The Russian Revolution ... and Russia under the Bolshevik regime ... by Richard Pipes"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-416) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part 1: The agony of the Old Regime. I. Russia in 1900. The peasantry ; Official Russia ; The intelligentsia -- II. The constitutional experiment. The Revolution of 1905 ; Stolypin -- III. Russia at war. Her prospects ; The first year ; Catastrophe looms -- IV. The February Revolution -- Part 2: The Bolsheviks conquer Russia. V. Lenin and the origins of Bolshevism -- VI. The October coup. The Bolshevik's failed bids for power ; The coup -- VII. Building the one-party state -- VIII. The Revolution internationalized. Brest-Litovsk ; Foreign involvement -- IX. War Communism. The creation of a command economy ; The war against the village -- X. Red terror. The murder of the imperial family ; Mass terror -- Part 3: Russia under the Bolshevik Regime. XI. The Civil War. The first battles : 1918 ; The climax : 1919-1920 -- XII. The new empire -- XIII. Communism for export -- XIV. Spiritual life. Culture as propaganda ; War on religion -- XV. Communism in crisis. NEP : the false thermidor ; The crisis of the new regime -- XVI. Reflections on the Russian Revolution -- Glossary -- Chronology.