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Author : Albert Rhys Williams
Publisher : New York : Rand School of Social Science
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Bolsheviks and the Soviets written by Albert Rhys Williams and published by New York : Rand School of Social Science. This book was released on 1919 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Rabinowitch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253220424
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Bolsheviks in Power written by Alexander Rabinowitch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to newly opened archives has allowed Alexander Rabinowitch to substantially rewrite the history of how the Bolsheviks consolidated their power in Russia. Focusing on the first year of Soviet rule in St Petersburg, he shows how state organs evolved in the face of repeated crises.
Author : Diane P. Koenker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780393803
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)
Download or read book Revelations from the Russian Archives written by Diane P. Koenker and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Will the Bolsheviks Maintain Power? written by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tomila V. Lankina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009080393
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia written by Tomila V. Lankina and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devastating challenge to the idea of communism as a 'great leveller', this extraordinarily original, rigorous, and ambitious book debunks Marxism-inspired accounts of its equalitarian consequences. It is the first study systematically to link the genesis of the 'bourgeoisie-cum-middle class' – Imperial, Soviet, and post-communist – to Tzarist estate institutions which distinguished between nobility, clergy, the urban merchants and meshchane, and peasants. It demonstrates how the pre-communist bourgeoisie, particularly the merchant and urban commercial strata but also the high human capital aristocracy and clergy, survived and adapted in Soviet Russia. Under both Tzarism and communism, the estate system engendered an educated, autonomous bourgeoisie and professional class, along with an oppositional public sphere, and persistent social cleavages that continue to plague democratic consensus. This book also shows how the middle class, conventionally bracketed under one generic umbrella, is often two-pronged in nature – one originating among the educated estates of feudal orders, and the other fabricated as part of state-induced modernization.
Author : Richard Pipes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030778861X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime written by Richard Pipes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the accliamed authority on Russia and the Russian Revolution—the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to Lenin's death in 1924 "Offers a penetrating analysis of the making of the Soviet system.... [It is] a passionate book whose outstanding scholarship is rooted in universal values like truth, honor, responsibility and the sacredness of human life." —Philadelphia Inquirer "Timely.... The work is enriched in intriguing ways by the author's access to the once-secret archives of the Soviet Union." —Los Angeles Times
Author : Sean McMeekin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300152795
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book History's Greatest Heist written by Sean McMeekin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Lenin’s regime turned Russia’s priceless cultural patrimony into armored cars, trains, planes, and machine guns Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: How did the Bolsheviks, despite facing a world of enemies and leaving nothing but economic ruin in their path, manage to stay in power through five long years of civil war? In this penetrating book, Sean McMeekin draws on previously undiscovered materials from the Soviet Ministry of Finance and other European and American archives to expose some of the darkest secrets of Russia’s early days of communism. Building on one archival revelation after another, the author reveals how the Bolsheviks financed their aggression through astonishingly extensive thievery. Their looting included everything from the cash savings of private citizens to gold, silver, diamonds, jewelry, icons, antiques, and artwork. By tracking illicit Soviet financial transactions across Europe, McMeekin shows how Lenin’s regime accomplished history’s greatest heist between 1917 and 1922 and turned centuries of accumulated wealth into the sinews of class war. McMeekin also names names, introducing for the first time the compliant bankers, lawyers, and middlemen who, for a price, helped the Bolsheviks launder their loot, impoverish Russia, and impose their brutal will on millions.
Author : Alexander Rabinowitch
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745322681
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (226 download)
Download or read book The Bolsheviks Come to Power written by Alexander Rabinowitch and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations in the West, Cold War animosity blocked dispassionate accounts of the Russian Revolution. This history authoritatively restores the upheaval's primary social actors-workers, soldiers, and peasants-to their rightful place at the center of the revolutionary process.
Author : Yuri Slezkine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400888174
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The House of Government written by Yuri Slezkine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine’s gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin’s purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children’s loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union. Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building’s residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.
Author : Stephen J. Lee
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415287170
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Lenin and Revolutionary Russia written by Stephen J. Lee and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lenin and Revolutionary Russia examines the background to and the course of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Lenin's regime. It explores all the key aspects such as the development of the Bolsheviks as a revolutionary party, the 1905 Revolution, the collapse of the Tsarists, the Russian Civil War and historical interpretations of Lenin's legacy to Russian history.
Author : Adam Bruno ULAM
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044533
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Bolsheviks written by Adam Bruno ULAM and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the Bolsheviks is an epic Russian story that now has a definitive end. The major historian of the subject, Adam Ulam, has enlarged his classic work with a new Preface that puts the revolutionary moment, and especially Lenin, in perspective for our modern age.
Author : Adam Bruno Ulam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lenin and the Bolsheviks written by Adam Bruno Ulam and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Enigma Books
ISBN 13 : 1936274159
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Lenin and His Comrades written by and published by Enigma Books. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the real impact and significance of the October Revolution of 1917? This avowedly revisionist interpretation by a major Russian dissident seeks to place Lenin and those around him in the proper perspective. Since the takeover of Russia was the result of a coup d’état by a tiny minority of criminals that Yuri Felshtinsky doesn’t hesitate to call gangsters, the Communist regime was doomed from the start. Yuri Felshtinsky received a PhD in history from Rutgers University. His books include The Failure of the World Revolution (1991), Blowing up Russia (with Alexander Litvinenko, 2007), and The Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin (with Vladimir Pribylovsky, 2008). He lives near Boston, Massachusetts.
Author : Albert Rhys Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Through the Russian Revolution written by Albert Rhys Williams and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A facsimilie edition of the classic eyewitness account of the Bolshevik revolution with rare photographs, color posters, and proclaimations." First published in New York in 1921.
Author : David W. McFadden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195361156
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Alternative Paths written by David W. McFadden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-25 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1917 and 1920--from the Bolshevik Revolution to the definitive statement of American opposition to Bolshevik Russia--Soviets and Americans searched for ways to effect meaningful interactions between their two nations in the absence of formal diplomatic relations. During these years, wide-ranging discussions occurred on a variety of serious issues, from military collaboration and economic relations to the comprehensive settlement of political and military disputes. At the same time, extensive debates took place in both countries about the nature of the relations between them. As McFadden shows in this pathbreaking book, based on research in Soviet archives as well as previously unused private collections and government archives in the United States and Great Britain, a surprising number of concrete agreements were reached between the two countries. These included continued operation of the American Red Cross in Russia, the transfer of war materials from the Russian army to the Americans, the sale of strategic supplies of platinum from the Bolsheviks to the United States, and the exemption of a number of American corporations from Soviet government nationalization decrees. Numerous important diplomats and politicians were involved in these negotiations. McFadden offers a timely reevaluation in a post-Cold War era.
Author : Richard K. Debo
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773508286
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Survival and Consolidation written by Richard K. Debo and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the Soviet Union is disintegrating, Richard Debo provides an intriguing and detailed examination of the new political realities that slowly and painfully emerged in eastern Europe out of the chaos left in the wake of the First World War. Revealing the reasons for the victory of Lenin's Bolshevik government in the Russian civil war, Debo demonstrates that Bolshevik political and diplomatic skills were far superior to those of either their indigenous opponents or their many foreign enemies. For much of 1919, enemies of the Soviet government were more interested in fighting each other than the Bolsheviks, and, although foreign powers sought to influence competing anti-Bolshevik generals, they actually contributed little to the defeat of the Red Army. Meanwhile, the Bolsheviks established realistic priorities, formulated flexible policies, and made political sacrifices unimagined by their enemies. As a result they were able to find allies and divide opponents.
Author : J. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230377378
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917–23 written by J. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-01-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a timely re-examination of the origins of the system which fell apart so dramatically in 1991, this book deals with the policies of the Soviets towards the non-Russian nationalities of the former Russian Empire. Making extensive use of previously unavailable material from the Soviet archives, Jeremy Smith explores the attempts of the Bolsheviks to promote the development of minority nationalities in the Soviet context, through a combination of political, cultural and educational measures, and looks at the disputes surrounding the creation of the Soviet Union.
