Revolution in Russia Reassessments of 1917

Name: Revolution in Russia Reassessments of 1917
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ISBN: 9780521405850

ISBN-10: 0521405858

ISBN-13: 9780521405850

Edition: 1992

Authors: Edith Rogovin Frankel, Jonathan Frankel, Baruch Knei-Paz

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The Russian Revolution of 1917 continues to be a subject of most intense controversy; and the fundamental questions which have divided observers over the last seventy years still stir fierce debate. In this volume, eighteen leading specialists from different generations, countries and schools of thought, re-examine the key issues and events of that crucial year. Some of the articles examine the unfolding crisis 'from below', describing developments in specific localities or organisations: others put the emphasis on the view as seen 'from above', on Lenin as leader of the Bolshevik party and of the emergent Soviet states. Other contributors explore the roles played by the officer corps, the…

Book details

List price: $64.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/30/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of contributors


Preface


Glossary






1917: the problem of alternatives




Political Power and Mass Action



Soviets as agents of democratisation




Political power in the Russian revolution: a case study of Saratov




The Red Guards: spontaneity and the October revolution




Officers of the general staff and the Kornilov movement




Peasants, Workers and Bourgeoisie



The peasantry in the revolutions of 1917




Perceptions and reality of labour protest, March to October 1917




October in the Ivanovo-Kineshma industrial region




Commercial-industrial circles in revolution: the failure of 'industrial progressivism'




Nationalities



Nationalism and class in the Russian revolution: a comparative discussion




Georgian social democracy in 1917




The ethnic Germans in the Russian revolution




Leninism and the Making of October



Lenin, socialism and the state in 1917




The Bolsheviks on political campaign in 1917: a case study of the war question




Lenin's time budget: the Smolny period




1917 in Retrospect: Historigraphy and Theory



Iakovlev's question, or the historiography of the problem of spontancity and leadership in the Russian revolution of February 1917




The libertarians vindicated? The libertarian view of the revolution in the light of recent Western research




Russian Marxism: theory, action and outcome



Index