The Russian Revolution : a new history /
In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which brought an end to Romanov rule and ushered the Bolsheviks into power. Between the dawn of the 20th century and 1920, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation, the effe...
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2017]
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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.