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Revolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991 : a history  Cover Image Book Book

Revolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991 : a history

Figes, Orlando (author.).

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

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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.
Subject: Soviet Union History
Russia History 20th century
Russia History 19th century
Revolutions Soviet Union History
Revolutions Russia History 20th century
Insurgency Russia History 19th century

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Covington Branch 947.08 F471r 2014 (Text) 33126019922198 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 05/09/2024

Orlando Figes is the author of eight books on Russia that have been translated into twenty-seven languages; they include The Whisperers, A People's Tragedy, Natasha's Dance, and Just Send Me Word. A professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Figes is the recipient of the Wolfon History Prize, the W. H. Smith Literary Award, the NCR Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among others.

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