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The Russian Revolution

ISBN: 9780192802040 | 0192802046
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/29/2001

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
This provocative and eminently readable work looks at the many upheavals of the Russian Revolution as successive stages in a single process. Focusing on the Russian Revolution in its widest sense, Fitzpatrick covers not only the events of 1917 and what preceded them, but the nature of the social transformation brought about by the Bolsheviks after they took power. Making use of a huge amount of previously secret information in Soviet archives and unpublished memoirs, this detailed chronology recounts each monumental event from the February and ... MORE
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Acknowledgementsv
Introduction1(14)
The Setting
15(25)
The society
16(7)
The revolutionary tradition
23(8)
The 1905 Revolution and its aftermath; the First World War
31(9)
1917: The Revolutions of February and October
40(28)
The February Revolution and `dual power'
44(5)
The Bolsheviks
49(3)
The popular revolution
52(5)
The political crises of the summer
57(4)
The October Revolution
61(7)
The Civil War
68(25)
The Civil War, the Red Army and the Cheka
72(6)
War Communism
78(5)
Visions of the new world
83(4)
The Bolsheviks in power
87(6)
NEP and the Future of the Revolution
93(27)
The discipline of retreat
96(6)
The problem of bureaucracy
102(4)
The leadership struggle
106(5)
Building socialism in one country
111(9)
Stalin's Revolution
120(28)
Stalin versus the Right
124(5)
The industrialization drive
129(6)
Collectivization
135(6)
Cultural Revolution
141(7)
Ending the Revolution
148(25)
`Revolution accomplished'
150(6)
`Revolution betrayed'
156(7)
Terror
163(10)
Notes173(12)
Select Bibliography185(8)
Index193

Sheila Fitzpatrick is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of Modern Russian History at the University of Chicago.

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