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Author:

McMeekin, Sean, 1974- author.

Title:

The Russian Revolution : a new history / Sean McMeekin.

Publisher:

Basic Books,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xxxi, 445 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-420) and index.

Contents:

Prologue: The blood of a peasant -- I. The twilight of the Romanovs -- The old regime, and its enemies -- 1905: shock to the system -- The fragile giant: Tsarist Russia on the precipice of war -- Russia's war: 1914-1916 -- II. 1917: a false dawn -- Full of fight -- A break in the weather -- Army in the balance -- The German gambit -- Twilight of the liberals -- Kerensky's moment -- III. Hostile takeover -- Lenin shows his hand -- Army on the brink -- Red October -- General strike -- Ceasefire -- Russia at low ebb -- Reprieve -- IV. The Bolsheviks in power -- War communism -- Red on white -- The Communist International -- The ides of March -- "Turn gold into bread": famine and the war on the church -- Rapallo -- Epilogue: the specter of Communism.

ISBN:

0465039901
9780465039906

OCLC:

(OCoLC)960294645

LCCN:

2016058361

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