In this monumental history of the Russian Revolution, Pipes argues convincingly that the Russian Revolution was an intellectual, rather than a class, uprising; that it was steeped in terror from its very outset; and that it was not a revolution at all but a coup d'état. Pipes goes on to examine the establishment in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1920 of a new type of regime: the world's first modern, industrial, totalitarian state. In Russia under the Bolshevik Regime, Pipes describes the Civil War, the attempts to export the revolution abroad, and the solidification of the Communist state in the early 1920s. This volume is the successor to Pipes' renowned Russia Under the Old Regime and achieves a similar definitive authority for one of the defining events of our time. 100 photographs
PRAISE FOR The Russian Revolution:
"Mr. Pipes writes trenchantly, and at times superbly.... No single volume known to me even begins to cater so adequately to those who want to discover what really happened to Russia.... Nor do I know any other book better designed to help Soviet citizens to struggle out of the darkness."--New York Times Book Review
"A monumental study...of absorbing interest [by] the distinguished historian of modern Russia.... Lucidly written, unsurpassed in detail and comprehensiveness."--Wall Street Journal
CONTENTS
Part One: The Agony of the Old Regime 1. 1905: The Foreshock 2. Official Russia 3. Rural Russia 4. The Intelligentsia 5. The Constitutional Experiment 6. Russia at War 7. Toward the Catastrophe 8. The February Revolution
Part Two: The Bolsheviks Conquer Russia 9. Lenin and the Origins of Bolshevism 10. The Bolshevik Bid for Power 11. The October Coup 12. Building the One-Party State 13. Brest-Litovsk 14. The Revolution Internationalized 15. "War Communism" 16. War on the Village 17. Murder of the Imperial Family 18. Red Terror
Afterword Glossary Chronology
Richard Pipes was for many years a professor of history at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books and essays on Russia, past and present, including Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime. In 1981–82 he served as President Reagan's National Security Council adviser on Soviet and East European affairs, and he has twice received a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Marlborough, New Hampshire.
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In this monumental history of the Russian Revolution, Pipes argues convincingly that the Russian Revolution was an intellectual, rather than a class, uprising; that it was steeped in terror from its very outset; and that it was not a revolution at all but a coup d'état. Pipes goes on to examine the establishment in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1920 of a new type of regime: the world's first modern, industrial, totalitarian state. In Russia under the Bolshevik Regime, Pipes describes the Civil War, the attempts to export the revolution abroad, and the solidification of the Communist state in the early 1920s. This volume is the successor to Pipes' renowned Russia Under the Old Regime and achieves a similar definitive authority for one of the defining events of our time. 100 photographs
PRAISE FOR The Russian Revolution:
"Mr. Pipes writes trenchantly, and at times superbly.... No single volume known to me even begins to cater so adequately to those who want to discover what really happened to Russia.... Nor do I know any other book better designed to help Soviet citizens to struggle out of the darkness."--New York Times Book Review
"A monumental study...of absorbing interest [by] the distinguished historian of modern Russia.... Lucidly written, unsurpassed in detail and comprehensiveness."--Wall Street Journal
CONTENTS
Part One: The Agony of the Old Regime 1. 1905: The Foreshock 2. Official Russia 3. Rural Russia 4. The Intelligentsia 5. The Constitutional Experiment 6. Russia at War 7. Toward the Catastrophe 8. The February Revolution
Part Two: The Bolsheviks Conquer Russia 9. Lenin and the Origins of Bolshevism 10. The Bolshevik Bid for Power 11. The October Coup 12. Building the One-Party State 13. Brest-Litovsk 14. The Revolution Internationalized 15. "War Communism" 16. War on the Village 17. Murder of the Imperial Family 18. Red Terror
Afterword Glossary Chronology
Author
Richard Pipes was for many years a professor of history at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books and essays on Russia, past and present, including Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime. In 1981–82 he served as President Reagan's National Security Council adviser on Soviet and East European affairs, and he has twice received a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Marlborough, New Hampshire.
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