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The Russian Revolution: A New History

The Russian Revolution: A New History

McMeekin, Sean

Paperback

General World History

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 1541675487
ISBN13: 9781541675483
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Mar 16 2021
Pages: 496
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From an award-winning scholar, this definitive history reveals the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution.

McMeekin writes muscular history. His Russian Revolution grips the reader. --Niall Ferguson

In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolskeviks into power, and introduced communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse of the Tsarist regime in the middle of World War I, the Bolsheviks staged a hostile takeover of the Russian Imperial Army, promoting mutinies and mass desertions of men in order to fulfill Lenin's program of turning the imperialist war into civil war. By the time the Bolsheviks had snuffed out the last resistance five years later, over twenty million people had died, and the Russian economy had collapsed so completely that communism had to be temporarily abandoned.

The first comprehensive history of these momentous events in over two decades, The Russian Revolution combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on one of the most significant turning points of the twentieth century.

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