The Russian RevolutionThe Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpatrick takes the story from 1917, through Stalin's 'revolution from above', to the great purges of the 1930s. She tells a gripping story of a Marxist revolution that was intended to transform the world, visited enormous suffering on the Russian people, and, like the French Revolution before it, ended up by devouring its own children. This updated edition contains a fully revised bibliography and updated introduction to address the centenary, what does it all mean in retrospect. |
Contents
The Setting | |
The Civil | |
NEP and the Future of the Revolution | |
Stalins Revolution | |
Ending the Revolution | |
Notes | |
Select Bibliography | |
Index | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administrative agriculture arrested autocracy became Bloomington Bolshevik Party bourgeois bourgeoisie Bukharin bureaucracy Cambridge capitalism capitalist Central Committee Cheka Civil class enemies collectivization Comintern Commissars Communism Communist conspiracy countryside coup Cultural Revolution dictatorship Duma early economic elected elite émigré factions factory committees February Revolution Five-Year Plan forces foreign French Revolution German government’s grain Gulag historians ideology industrialization drive intellectuals intelligentsia internal Kerensky kolkhoz Kornilov Kronstadt kulaks labour land Lenin liberal London Marxist mass meant Mensheviks military modern Molotov Moscow Nicholas October Revolution officials Old Bolshevik opposition Party Congress party leadership party organization party’s peasantry peasants People’s Petrograd Soviet Politburo political popular Princeton proletarian Provisional Government Purges Red Army regime’s Rightists Russian Revolution seemed Sheila Fitzpatrick social socialist society Soviet power Soviet Union Stalin Stalin’s revolution Stalinist struggle towns trade Trotsky Trotsky’s Tsarist Urals urban victory village Western workers working-class York