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Book

Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 : a history

Call Number

  • 947.084 F471 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Metropolitan Books : Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

Physical Description

viii, 324 pages ; 25 cm

Contents

  • 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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