The Russian Revolution: A New History - Softcover

McMeekin, Sean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1541675487 ISBN 13: 9781541675483

Verlag: Basic Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

A “powerful revisionist history” (Times UK) illuminating the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution

In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse of the Tsarist regime in the middle of World War I, the Bolsheviks staged a hostile takeover of the Russian Imperial Army, promoting mutinies and mass desertions of men in order to fulfill Lenin’s program of turning the “imperialist war” into civil war. By the time the Bolsheviks had snuffed out the last resistance five years later, over twenty million people had died, and the Russian economy had collapsed so completely that communism had to be temporarily abandoned.
 
The first comprehensive history of these momentous events in over two decades, The Russian Revolution combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on one of the most significant turning points of the twentieth century.

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Sean McMeekin is a professor of history at Bard College. The award-winning author of several books, including Stalin’s War, The Russian Revolution, and July 1914, McMeekin lives in Clermont, New York.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1541675487
• ISBN 13: 9781541675483
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar