The Russian Revolution, 1917 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Russian Revolution, 1917 write by Rex A. Wade. This book was released on 2017-02-02. The Russian Revolution, 1917 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the 1917 Russian Revolution from its February Revolution beginning to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in October.
The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Russian Revolution write by Sean McMeekin. This book was released on 2017-06-01. The Russian Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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?
Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution
Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution write by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. This book was released on 2017-10-25. Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction -- Prelude to revolution -- Rising crime before the October revolution -- Why did the crime rate shoot up? -- Militias rise and fall -- An epidemic of mob justice -- Crime after the Bolshevik takeover -- The Bolsheviks and the militia -- Conclusion
Year One of the Russian Revolution
Year One of the Russian Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Year One of the Russian Revolution write by Victor Serge. This book was released on 2017-01-15. Year One of the Russian Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
A People's History of the Russian Revolution
A People's History of the Russian Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A People's History of the Russian Revolution write by Neil Faulkner. This book was released on 2017. A People's History of the Russian Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
