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Author Faulkner, Neil, author.

Title A people's history of the Russian Revolution / Neil Faulkner.

Publication Info. London : Pluto Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-267) and index.
Summary The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In A People's History of the Russian Revolution, 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.
Contents Introduction; Part I: The Spark, 1825-1916; 1. The Regime; 2. The Revolutionaries; 3. Lenin and the Bolsheviks; 4. The Great War; Part II: The Tempest, 1917; 5. The February Revolution; 6. Dual Power; 7. Counter-Revolution; 8. The October Days; Part III: The Darkness, 1918-1938; 9. World Revolution?; 10. The Revolution Besieged; 11. Stalinism.
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Subject Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921) (OCoLC)fst01907572
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Humanities.
Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions.
Russian Revolution.
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Chronological Term 1917-1921
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Faulkner, Neil. People's history of the russian revolution. [Place of publication not identified] : Pluto Press, 2017 0745399037 (OCoLC)937452432
ISBN 9781786800190 (electronic bk.)
1786800195 (electronic bk.)
0745399037
9780745399034
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