Russian Revolution The Essential Readings

Name: Russian Revolution The Essential Readings
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ISBN: 9780631216391

ISBN-10: 0631216391

ISBN-13: 9780631216391

Edition: 2001

Authors: Martin A. Miller

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This volume consists of nine chapters which deal with many of the crucial issues of the Russian Revolution, introduced and contextualized particularly for students. The material, all written by prominent specialists, represents some of the most influential work of the last two decades. The book covers the immediate background to the Revolutions of 1917-- the parties, movements, and personalities as well as issues of social class, gender and ethnicity. It opens with an introduction that presents a number of the main problems embedded in the study of the Revolution, and concludes with an examination of the writing of Russian history after the fall of communism. There is an explanatory…

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List price: $66.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.05" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Editor's Introduction: The Russian Revolution at the Millennium




On the Eve




The Battleground




Parties, Movements and Personalities in the Revolutions of 1917


Introduction




Russia's Second Revolution: The February 1917 Uprising in Petrograd




The Russian Revolution of 1917 and its Language in the Village




The Bolsheviks come to Power




Issues of Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Revolution


Introduction




Russian Labor and Bolshevik Power: Social Dimensions of Protest after October




Ascribing Class: The Construction of Social Identity in Soviet Russia




Bolshevik Women




State Building and Nation-Making: The Soviet Experience




Conclusions and Prospects



Writing the History of the Russian Revolution after the Fall of Communism



Index