The Russian RevolutionA groundbreaking, inclusive history of the Russian Revolution for "those who want to discover what really happened to Russia" (The New York Times Book Review) A "monumental study" (Wall Street Journal), enthralling in its narrative of a movement whose purpose, in the words of Leon Trotsky, was "to overthrow the world," The Russian Revolution draws conclusions that have aroused great controversy. Richard Pipes argues convincingly that the Russian Revolution was an intellectual, rather than a class, uprising; that it was steeped in terror from its very outset; and that it was not a revolution at all but a coup d'etat—"the capture of governmental power by a small minority." |
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Inhalt
| 25 | |
Official Russia | 53 |
Patrimonialism 53 Nicholas and Alexandra 57 | 86 |
Household village and commune 92 land shortage | 109 |
peasant attitudes to law and property H4 changes | 119 |
Russia at War | 195 |
Strategic preparations and Russias readiness for | 211 |
Russian debacle in Poland 1915 216 changes in gov | 228 |
Kerensky reacts 488 Bolsheviks declare Provisional | 504 |
Lenins strategy after power seizure 506 Lenin | 558 |
BrestLitovsk | 567 |
The Revolution Internationalized | 606 |
War Communism | 671 |
War on the Village | 714 |
The Red Terror | 789 |
Lenins attitude toward terror 789 abolition of | 796 |
PART | 272 |
12 | 280 |
Russias breakdown 336 | 341 |
The Bolshevik Bid for Power | 385 |
The Bolshevik Party in early 1917 386 Lenin returns | 405 |
Bolshevik assets in the struggle for power and German | 431 |
The October Coup | 439 |
Kornilov appointed Commander in Chief 439 | 486 |
the Commissariat of Justice 803 Lenin shot August | 816 |
revolted by bloodbath 825 Cheka penetrates all | 839 |
Chronology | 847 |
Notes | 856 |
341 | 897 |
One Hundred Works on the Russian Revolution | 915 |
| 922 | |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Russian Revolution |
| Autor/in | Richard Pipes |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0307788571, 9780307788573 |
| Länge | 976 Seiten |
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