Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xvii, 431 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Note |
Abridged version of The Russian Revolution. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [415]-416) and index. |
Contents |
Russia in 1900 -- The constitutional experiment -- Russia at war -- The February Revolution -- Lenin and the origins of Bolshevism -- The October coup -- Building the one-party state -- The Revolution internationalized -- War Communism -- Red terror -- The Civil War -- The new empire -- Communism for export -- Spiritual life -- Communism in crisis -- Reflections on the Russian Revolution. |
Summary |
Examines the 1917 Russian Revolution, including Lenin's rise to power, the killing of the Romanovs, and the famine of 1921. |
Subject |
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
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Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917.
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Added Author |
Pipes, Richard
Russian Revolution.
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ISBN |
0679422773: $27.50 (Canada $37.00) |
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9780679422778 |
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