Revolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991 : a history /
Orlando Figes.
- First U.S. Edition.
- New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
- viii, 324 p. ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.
Presenting a new perspective on the Russian Revolution, a noted historian traces three generational phases to show how the revolution, while it changed in form and character, retained the same idealistic goals throughout. The start -- The "dress rehearsal" -- Last hopes -- War and revolution -- The February Revolution -- Lenin's revolution -- Civil War and the making of the Soviet system -- Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin -- The revolution's golden age? -- The great break -- Stalin's crisis -- Communism in retreat? -- The great terror -- Revolution for export -- War and revolution -- Revolution and Cold War -- The beginning of the end -- Mature socialism -- The last bolshevik -- Judgement.
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