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PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY

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PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY

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ISBN 13:
9780670859160
ISBN 10:
0670859168
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Copyright: 01/01/1998
Publisher: PENGUIN

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Summary

A comprehensive, one-volume account of the Russian Revolution covers every moment, from the end of the nineteenth century to the death of Lenin, and explores how Russian pre-revolution social forces were violently erased and replaced.

Illustrations

Preface

Glossary

xix

Notes on Dates

xxi

Maps

xxii-xxvii

PART ONE RUSSIA UNDER THE OLD REGIME

The Dynasty

(32)

The Tsar and His People

(12)

The Miniaturist

(9)

The Heir

(11)

Unstable Pillars

(49)

Bureaucrats and Dressing-Gowns

(7)

The Thin Veneer of Civilization

(13)

Remnants of a Feudal Army

(6)

Not-So-Holy Russia

(8)

Prison of Peoples

(15)

Icons and Cockroaches

(38)

A World Apart

(18)

The Quest to Banish the Past

102

(20)

Red Ink

122

(35)

Inside the Fortress

122

(17)

Marx Comes to Russia

139

(18)

PART TWO THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY (1891--1917)

First Blood

157

(56)

Patriots and Liberators

157

(16)

`There is no Tsar'

173

(19)

A Parting of Ways

192

(21)

Last Hopes

213

(40)

Parliaments and Peasants

213

(8)

The Statesman

221

(11)

The Wager on the Strong

232

(9)

For God, Tsar and Fatherland

241

(12)

A War on Three Fronts

253

(54)

Metal Against Men

253

(17)

The Mad Chauffeur

270

(21)

From the Trenches to the Barricades

291

(16)

PART THREE RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION (FEBRUARY 1917--MARCH 1918)

Glorious February

307

(47)

The Power of the Streets

307

(16)

Reluctant Revolutionaries

323

(16)

Nicholas the Last

339

(15)

The Freest Country in the World

354

(52)

A Distant Liberal State

354

(7)

Expectations

361

(23)

Lenin's Rage

384

(14)

Gorky's Despair

398

(8)

The Agony of the Provisional Government

406

(68)

The Illusion of a Nation

406

(15)

A Darker Shade of Red

421

(17)

The Man on a White Horse

438

(17)

Hamlets of Democratic Socialism

455

(19)

Lenin's Revolution

474

(81)

The Art of Insurrection

474

(26)

The Smolny Autocrats

500

(20)

Looting the Looters

520

(16)

Socialism in One Country

536

(19)

PART FOUR THE CIVIL WAR AND THE MAKING OF THE SOVIET SYSTEM (1918--24)

Last Dreams of the Old World

555

(34)

St Petersburg on the Steppe

555

(20)

The Ghost of the Constituent Assembly

575

(14)

The Revolution Goes to War

589

(61)

Arming the Revolution

589

(14)

`Kulaks', Bagmen and Cigarette Lighters

603

(24)

The Colour of Blood

627

(23)

The New Regime Triumphant

650

(71)

Three Decisive Battles

650

(32)

Comrades and Commissars

682

(14)

A Socialist Fatherland

696

(25)

Defeat in Victory

721

(52)

Short-Cuts to Communism

721

(11)

Engineers of the Human Soul

732

(19)

Bolshevism in Retreat

751

(22)

Deaths and Departures

773

(35)

Orphans of the Revolution

773

(13)

The Unconquered Country

786

(7)

Lenin's Last Struggle

793

(15)

Conclusion

808

(17)

Notes

825

(37)

Bibliography

862

(33)

Index

895

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