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01876aam a2200289Ii 4500 001 99CA60F86C4711E794AADEAADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170719010036 008 160208t20172017enkab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0745399037 020 $a 9780745399034 020 $a 0745399045 020 $a 9780745399041 040 $d SILO 043 $a e-ru--- 050 4 $a DK265 $b .F385 2017 082 04 $a 940.5 100 1 $a Faulkner, Neil, $e author. 245 12 $a A people's history of the Russian Revolution / $c Neil Faulkner. 264 1 $a London : $b Pluto Press, $c 2017. 300 $a x, 272 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-267) and index. 520 8 $a The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. Neil Faulkner sets out to debunk the myths. In this fast-paced introduction to the tumultuous events, the Russian people are the heroes. Faulkner shows how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies, mobilised for militant action, destroyed a regime of landlords, profiteers and warmongers. He rejects caricatures of Lenin and the Bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators, 'democratic-centralists' or the progenitors of Stalinist dictatorship. He 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 monstrous form of bureaucratic state-capitalism. Laced with first-hand testimony, this history seeks to rescue the democratic essence of the revolution from its detractors and deniers, offering a perfect primer for the modern reader. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x History $y Revolution, 1917-1921. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20170719010330.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=99CA60F86C4711E794AADEAADAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search