The Russian Revolution

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