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The Russian Revolution
ISBN: 9780192891488 | 0192891480
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/17/1984
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Now in a new edition, this provocative, highly readable work presents a fascinating look at events that culminated in the Russian Revolution. Focusing on the Revolution in its widest sense, Sheila Fitzpatrick covers not only the events of 1917 and what preceded them, but the social transformations brought about by the Bolsheviks.
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Setting | p. 15 |
| The society | p. 16 |
| The revolutionary tradition | p. 23 |
| The 1905 Revolution and its aftermath; the First World War | p. 31 |
| 1917: The Revolutions of February and October | p. 40 |
| The February Revolution and 'dual power' | p. 44 |
| The Bolsheviks | p. 49 |
| The popular revolut... MORE | p. 52 |
| The political crises of the summer | p. 57 |
| The October Revolution | p. 61 |
| The Civil War | p. 68 |
| The Civil War, the Red Army and the Cheka | p. 72 |
| War Communism | p. 78 |
| Visions of the new world | p. 83 |
| The Bolsheviks in power | p. 87 |
| NEP and the Future of the Revolution | p. 93 |
| The discipline of retreat | p. 96 |
| The problem of bureaucracy | p. 102 |
| The leadership struggle | p. 106 |
| Building socialism in one country | p. 111 |
| Stalin's Revolution | p. 120 |
| Stalin versus the Right | p. 124 |
| The industrialization drive | p. 129 |
| Collectivization | p. 135 |
| Cultural Revolution | p. 141 |
| Ending the Revolution | p. 148 |
| 'Revolution accomplished' | p. 150 |
| 'Revolution betrayed' | p. 156 |
| Terror | p. 163 |
| Notes | p. 173 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 185 |
| Index | p. 193 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
