Bibliograph

Revolutionary Russia, a history in documents, Robert Weinberg, Laurie Bernstein

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Label

Revolutionary Russia, a history in documents, Robert Weinberg, Laurie Bernstein

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Revolutionary Russia

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

444109990

Responsibility statement

Robert Weinberg, Laurie Bernstein

Series statement

Pages from history

Sub title

a history in documents

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]

Table Of Contents

Prelude to revolution -- A land of contrasts -- Revolutionary politics -- The Revolution of 1905 -- 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

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