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Was revolution inevitable? : turning points of the Russian Revolution /
The former British Ambassador to Russia brings together the top scholars of Russian history to evaluate the causes and effects of the 1917 Revolution, almost a century ago.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Was Revolution Inevitable? Turning Points of the Russian Revolution; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; A Note to the Reader; Chronology; Acknowledgements; Was Revolution Inevitable?; Introduction; I; II; III; 1. Foreign Intervention: The Long View: 1900-1920; 2. The Assassination of Stolypin: September 1911; 3. Grigory Rasputin and the Outbreak of the First World War: June 1914; 4. The Last Tsar: March 1917; 5. Enter Lenin: April-July 1917; 6. The Kornilov Affair: A Tragedy of Errors: August 1917; 7. The 'Harmless Drunk': Lenin and the October Insurrection: October 1917; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5.
- 8. The Short Life and Early Death of Russian Democracy: The Duma and the Constituent Assembly: January 1918; THE BACKGROUND; THE DUMA; THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY; HISTORICALLY INEVITABLE?; 9. Rescuing the Tsar and his Family: July 1918; 10. Fanny Kaplan's Attempt to Kill Lenin: August 1918; 11. Sea change in the Civil War: November 1918; THE ARMISTICE AND RUSSIA; THE OMSK COUP; CONSEQUENCES AND COUNTERFACTUALS; 12. The fate of the Soviet Countryside: March 1920; 13. The 'Bolshevik Reformation': February 1922.
- 14. The Rise of Leninism: The Death of Political Pluralism in the Post-Revolutionary Bolshevik Party: 1917-1922; THE SPECIFICITY OF MOSCOW; THE MULTIPLICITY OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS; OPPOSITION WITHIN THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION; THE LENINIST CONSOLIDATION; BOLSHEVIK PLURALISM IN PERSPECTIVE; Afterword: Lenin and Yesterday's Utopia; I: WHAT WAS INEVITABLE, AND WHAT WASN'T?; II: LENIN'S ROLE; III: LENIN'S LEGACY; IV: THE STATE LENIN CREATED; V: TWO REVOLUTIONS COMPARED; A) THE FRAGILITY OF RULING RUSSIA; B) THE INSTABILITY OF EMPIRE; C) THE CHALLENGE OF THE WEST; D) THE AUTHORITARIAN IMPULSE.
- VI: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT?; Notes; Chapter 1. Foreign Intervention: The Long View; Chapter 2. The Assassination of Stolypin; Chapter 3. Grigory Rasputin and the Outbreak of the First World War; Chapter 5. Enter Lenin; Chapter 6. The Kornilov affair: A Tragedy of Errors; Chapter 7. The 'Harmless Drunk': Lenin and the October Insurrection; Chapter 8. The Short Life and Early Death of Russian Democracy: The Duma and the Constituent Assembly; Chapter 9. Rescuing the Tsar and his Family; Chapter 11. Sea Change in the Civil War; Chapter 12. The Fate of the Soviet Countryside.
- Chapter 13. The 'Bolshevik Reformation'; Chapter 14. The Rise of Leninism: The Death of Political Pluralism in the Post-Revolutionary Bolshevik Party; Dramatis Personae; Contributors; Index.