A people's history of the Russian Revolution
Neil Faulkner
Bok · Engelsk · 2017
| Omfang | 1 volume. 272 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Dates, Names, Prices and Wages -- Introduction -- Part I: The Spark, 1825-1916 -- 1. The Regime -- 2. The Revolutionaries -- 3. Lenin and the Bolsheviks -- 4. The Great War -- Part II: The Tempest, 1917 -- 5. The February Revolution -- 6. Dual Power -- 7. Counter-Revolution -- 8. The October Days -- Part III: The Darkness, 1918-1938 -- 9. World Revolution? -- 10. The Revolution Besieged -- 11. Stalinism -- Epilogue -- Timeline -- Bibliography -- Index.. - The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In A People's History of the Russian Revolution, Neil Faulkner sets out to debunk the myths. In this fast-paced introduction to the tumultuous events, the Russian people are the heroes. Faulkner shows how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies, mobilised for militant action, destroyed a regime of landlords, profiteers and warmongers. He rejects caricatures of Lenin and the Bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators, 'democratic-centralists' or the progenitors of Stalinist dictatorship. He argues that the Russian Revolution was an explosion of democracy and creativity - and that it was crushed by bloody counter-revolution and replaced with a monstrous form of bureaucratic state-capitalism. Laced with first-hand testimony, this history seeks to rescue the democratic essence of the revolution from its detractors and deniers, offering a perfect primer for the modern reader.
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| Emner | oktoberrevolusjonen marsrevolusjonen maktskifte samfunnsomveltning revolusjonar borgarkrig intervensjonskrig tsardøme Kerenskijregjeringa rådsorgan maktfordeling
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| ISBN | 978-0-1786-0020-21-3. - 978-0-1786-0020-6. - 978-0-7453-9903-4 : GB£ 12.99. - 978-0-7453-9904-1 : GB£ 49.50
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