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.
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ISBN:9780805091311 (hardcover)
ISBN:0805091319 (hardcover)
Physical Description:print viii, 324 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Publisher:New York, 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.
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.
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