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Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914-1921

Av Vladimir Cherniaev

Drawing on the work of dozens of scholars from Russia, Europe, Japan, and the United States, this title provides an overview of the early years of the Soviet Union. It covers such topics as the col...

Alexander Herzen and the Role of the Intellectual Revolutionary

Av Edward Acton

Alexander Herzen (1812-70) was the most outstanding figure in the early period of the Russian revolutionary movement. Lenin claimed him as a forerunner of the Bolsheviks, and Soviet scholars have s...

Alexander Herzen and the Role of the Intellectual Revolutionary

Av Edward Acton

Alexander Herzen (1812-70) was the most outstanding figure in the early period of the Russian revolutionary movement. Lenin claimed him as a forerunner of the Bolsheviks, and Soviet scholars have s...

Russia

Av Edward Acton

The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to contemporary Russia by examining its past. This second edition includes new material and expands sections dealing with the late imperial an...

Russia

Av Edward Acton

Presents a survey of Russian history to explain Russia, and the Russians. Within a chronological framework, this textbook concentrates on a number of key themes that are central to that understandi...

Rethinking the Russian Revolution

Av Edward Acton

For its admirers, the Russian Revolution is a milestone in human progress; for its critics, it is a catastrophe of monstrous proportions. Edward Acton's stimulating study combines an introduction t...

Soviet Union

Av Tom Stableford

This is the first volume of an integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. It draws on the primary material that has come to light since the collapse of Communist rule in 1991 to provide an...

Soviet Union

Av Edward Acton

The Soviet story - revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Cold War, the dramatic collapse under Gorbachev - looms large in history syllabuses fro...

Soviet Union

Av Edward Acton

This is the first volume of an integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. It draws on the primary material that has come to light since the collapse of Communist rule in 1991 to provide an...

Soviet Union

Av Edward Acton

The Soviet story - revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Cold War, the dramatic collapse under Gorbachev - looms large in history syllabuses fro...

Russia

Av Edward Acton