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The Russian Revolution : a new history / Sean McMeekin.

"In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and changed the course of world history. Between 1900 and 1920, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation:...

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Main Author: McMeekin, Sean, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2017]
Subjects:
Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921)
Soviet Union > History > Revolution, 1917-1921.
Soviet Union.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The blood of a peasant
  • I. The twilight of the Romanovs
  • The old regime, and its enemies
  • 1905: shock to the system
  • The fragile giant: Tsarist Russia on the precipice of war
  • Russia's war: 1914-1916
  • II. 1917: a false dawn
  • Full of fight
  • A break in the weather
  • Army in the balance
  • The German gambit
  • Twilight of the liberals
  • Kerensky's moment
  • III. Hostile takeover
  • Lenin shows his hand
  • Army on the brink
  • Red October
  • General strike
  • Ceasefire
  • Russia at low ebb
  • Reprieve
  • IV. The Bolsheviks in power
  • War communism
  • Red on white
  • The Communist International
  • The ides of March
  • "Turn gold into bread": famine and the war on the church
  • Rapallo
  • Epilogue: the specter of Communism.

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