standaardwerk over de Russische Revolutie 1891-1924 Tragedie van een volk heeft een indrukwekkend brede scope, steunt op uitputtend eigen onderzoek en is geschreven met passie, inleving en een g...
Essays address the process of worker alienation and reveal how the Bolsheviks appealed to, rather than exploited the working population, especially in the capital cities of Petrograd and Moscow.
This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive analysis of the political culture of the Russian Revolution. Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii examine the diverse ways that langua...
John Reed conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he...
All revolutionary regimes seek to legitimize themselves through foundation narratives that, told and retold, become constituent parts of the social fabric, erasing or pushing aside alternative hist...
The compelling and poignant story of the arrest, captivity, and execution of the last tsar of Russia and his family during the revolution of 1917-1918 has been recounted--and romanticized--for deca...
Although much has been written about the political history of the Russian revolution, the human story of what the revolution meant to ordinary people has rarely been told. This book gives voice to ...
A major contribution to the historiography of the world in the 20th century, "The Bolsheviks in Power" focuses on the fateful first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd. It examines events that profoun...
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A biography of General Peter Nikolaevich Wrangel, the last comander of White forces in the Russian civil War and the revered leader of the White Army in exile. It seeks to do justice to a man who, ...
This collection presents the major recent writings on the Russian Revolution and its context. It brings together key texts to illustrate new interpretive approaches and covers the central topics an...
"The best book ever written on the Russian civil war. A first-rate work of scholarly synthesis."—Robert McNeal In St. Petersburg on October 25, 1917, the A commanding chronicle of the three B...
Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd was in turmoil - felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt where foreign visito...
This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affectin...
Marx held that the progression of society from capitalism to communism was 'historically inevitable'. In Russia in 1917, it seemed that Marx's theory was being born out in reality. But was the Russ...
A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the world By 1917 the Europea...