Revolutionary Russia : A History in Documents
ISBN: 9780195337945 | 0195337948
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/23/2010
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This book provides a visually-stimulating survey of revolutionary Russia, from the collapse of the autocracy in 1917 to the consolidation of the Stalinist system in the 1930s. The focus of the narrative is on how the effort to build communism in Russia affected the lives of ordinary people.The authors have collected far flung documents, photographs, posters, and objects and strung them into a narrative with introductions to each chapter and document, sidebars, and detailed photo captions. While the main text tantalizes readers with the great vi... MORE
What is a Document?
How to Read a Document
Introduction
1. PRELUDE TO REVOLUTION
A Land of Contrasts
Revolutionary Politics
The Revolution of 1905
The Eve of War and Revolution
2. 1917: THE YEAR OF REVOLUTION
Society Becomes Radical
The Bolshevik Rise to Power
Views of the Revolution
3. THE CONSOLIDATION OF BOLSHEVIK RULE, 1918-1921
The Fate of the Royal Family
Opposition and Criticism
The Embrace of Dictatorship
Peasant Resistance and the Cr... MORE
Robert Weinberg is Professor of History at Swarthmore College. He is the author of The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa: Blood on the Steps (1993) and Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland (1998).
Laurie Bernstein is Associate Professor of History and Director of Women's Studies at Rutgers University, Camden. She is the author of Sonia's Daughters: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia (1995) and the editor of Mary Leder's My Life In Stalinist Russia: An American Woman Looks Back (2001).
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