A people's history of the Russian Revolution / Neil Faulkner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faulkner, Neil, author.

Series:

Left Book Club

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Pluto Press 2017

London, [England] : Pluto Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Russian Revolution was an explosion of mass democracy from below. It transformed the people who took part and inspired tens of millions across the world. Its global impact shook the capitalist system to its foundations and came close to bringing it down. But in the end, the revolutionary movement was destroyed by the most murderous counter-revolutionary terror in history. And because the real history of the revolution is so subversive of class rule everywhere – East, West, and South – it has been buried under a mountain of lies, distortions, and denials. This book sets out to nail every bogus argument about the Russian Revolution – from Tories, Stalinists, and sectarians – and to present the living reality of a mass movement of millions, organised in participatory assemblies, mobilised for militant action.

Contents:

Series preface

Acknowledgements

Dates, names, prices and wages

Maps

Introduction

part I: The Spark, 1825-1916

1. The Regime

2. The Revolutionaries

3. Lenin and the Bolsheviks

4. The Great War

part II: The Tempest, 1917

5. The February Revolution

6. Dual power

7. Counter-revolution

8. The October days

part III: The darkness, 1918-1938

9. World revolution?

10. The revolution besieged

11. Stalinism

Epilogue: a century of war and revolution

Timeline

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 3, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781786800206

1786800209

9781786800190

1786800195

OCLC:

969918937

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access