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Author Weinberg, Robert.

Title Revolutionary Russia : a history in documents / Robert Weinberg, Laurie Bernstein.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  947.0841 W423R    Check Shelf
Description ix, 239 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm.
Series Pages from history
Pages from history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary The authors have collected far-flung documents and woven them into a narrative that focuses on the effort to build communism in Russia and its effects on the lives of ordinary people.--[book cover]
Contents Prelude to revolution -- A land of contrasts -- Revolutionary politics -- The Revolution of 1905 -- On the eve of war and revolution -- 1917 : the year of revolution -- The radicalization of society -- The Bolshevik rise to power -- Views of the Revolution -- The consolidation of Bolshevik rule, 1918-1921 -- The fate of the royal family -- Opposition and criticism -- The embrace of dictatorship -- Peasant resistance and the crisis of Kronstadt -- The road to socialism -- The transformation of culture and society -- Celebrating revolution -- The debate about NEP -- Stalin's revolution from above, 1928-1932 -- Beating Russia into the 20th century -- The war against the peasantry and church -- The world of five-year plans -- Picture essay: Women's liberation in the Soviet Union -- Soviet society and culture in the 1930s -- The cult of Stalin -- The Stalinist revolution -- The Great Terror -- The Gulag -- Three views of the purges -- The trial of Bukharin -- Literature and the purges -- Epilogue -- Assessments of Stalinism -- Reflection on the Soviet experience -- Timeline.
Subject Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936 -- Sources.
Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917 -- Sources.
Social change -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources.
Social change -- Russia -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1917-1945 -- Sources.
Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917 -- Sources.
Communism -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources.
Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 -- Sources.
Russia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917 -- Sources.
Chronological Term 1801 - 1999
Added Author Bernstein, Laurie.
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