Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 : a history / Orlando Figes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Figes, Orlando, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insurgency--Russia--History--19th century.

Insurgency.

Revolutions--Russia--History--20th century.

Revolutions.

Revolutions--Soviet Union--History.

History.

Russia--History--1801-1917.

Russia.

Russia--History--20th century.

Soviet Union--History.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

viii, 324 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

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.

Contents:

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

Revolution and Cold War

The beginning of the end

Mature socialism

The last Bolshevik

Judgement.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780805091311

0805091319

OCLC:

862575182