Russia in Revolution

Posted on 15 December 2018 by Steve A. Smith

The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the nineteenth century, through the First World War and the revolutions of 1917 and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime, to the end of the 1920s, when Stalin simultaneously unleashed violent collectivization of agriculture and crash industrialization upon Russian society Drawing on recent archivally based scholarship, Russia in Revolution pays particular attention to the varying impact of the Revolution on the various groups that made up society peasants, workers, non Russian nationalities, the army, women and the family, young people, and the Church In doing so, it provides a fresh way into the big, perennial questions about the Revolution and its consequences why did the attempt by the tsarist government to implement political reform after the 1905 Revolution fail why did the First World War bring about the collapse of the tsarist system why did the attempt to create a democratic system after the February Revolution of 1917 not get off the ground why did the Bolsheviks succeed in seizing and holding on to power why did they come out victorious from a punishing civil war why did the New Economic Policy they introduced in 1921 fail and why did Stalin come out on top in the power struggle inside the Bolshevik party after Lenin s death in 1924 A final chapter then reflects on the larger significance of 1917 for the history of the twentieth century and, for all its terrible flaws, what the promise of the Revolution might mean for us today. Free Download [ Russia in Revolution ] By [ Steve A. Smith ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Very informative Also as dry as chalk that has been put in a dehumidifier, in a room that is being heated by electrical coils, in a house in the dryest, saltiest desert on the planet But very informative, and also, frankly, refreshing in its willingness to see that Lenin et al., weren t, you know, EVIL SATANIC MONSTERS COMIN...The Russian Revolution is an essential and seminal historical event that is crucial to understand in thinking about the twentieth century A great historian and admirer of the revolution Eric Hobsbawm wrote that if the ideas of the French revolution have, as is now evident, outlasted Bolshevism, the practical consequences of 1917 were far greater andlasting than those of 1789 Certainly the events in Russia were an important component in the ma...Sovyet tarihine dair bir ba ka liberal al ma Yazar n arzusu, devrime hakkaniyetli bir bak sunma g r nt s alt nda, bizlere bu hata bir daha tekrarlanmamal d ncesini a lamak.Sat rlar na iyice sinmi bak ndan anla ld zere, yazar Sovyet devrimini insanl k tarihinin geli me izgisinden bir sapma olarak g r yor Tabii bu ekol n slogan hi de i mez ok iyi, ok insani niyetlerle ba lad ama sonu felaket oldu s 556 Totaliter, otoriter, art k buraya liberalizmin b t n anahtar Sovyet tarihine dair bir ba ka liberal al ma Yazar n arzusu, devrime hakkaniyetli bir bak sunma g r nt s alt nda, bizlere bu hata bir daha tekrarlanmamal d ncesini a lamak.Sat rlar na iyice sinmi bak ndan anla ld zere, yazar Sovyet devrimini insanl k tarihinin geli me izgisinden bir sapma olarak g r yor Tabii bu ekol n slogan hi de i mez ok iyi, ok insani niyetlerle ba lad ama sonu felaket oldu s 556 Totaliter, otoriter, art k buraya liberalizmin b t n anahtar kavramlar n yap t r n Araya da in Halk Cumhuriyeti vg s n yap t rd k m tamamd r Bu bak mdan in kom nistlerinin kendi lkelerini nc bir ekonomik ve siyasi d ny...Professor Smith s book on the Russian revolution, released to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the events of 1917 covers the years 1890 until 1928, but its main focus is the years 1917 to 1924, with Lenin s death His main reasoning for including the earlier years is to argue that the revolution happened due to the rottenness of the Tsarist state, despite some improvements in the area of agrarian reform prior to the Great War The inclusion of the years after 1924...A mile wide and an inch deep Its been a long long time since I had so much trouble getting through a book I am very interested in the Russian Revolution and have read several related histories, so was very excited to see this new study However for a good part of the book I felt like I was wading through a data dump It seems that with several new sources available in the former Soviet Union, the author now had detailed enrollment numbers for several parties, soviets, and other organization in A mile wide and an inch deep Its been a long long time since I had so much trouble getting through a book I am very interested in the Russian Revolution and have read several related histories, so was very excited to see this new study However for a good part of the book I felt like I was wading through a data dump It seems that with several new sources available in the former Soviet Union, the author now had detailed enrollment numbers for several parties, soviets, and other organization in several districts and towns And we got it ALL There was very little time spent an analysis, background, and interactions between the people who were the main vehicles of the revolutionary movement.I would much rather have seen a one or two page dat...Nothing revolutionary here pun intended , but an excellent overview of the current state of the scholarly literature on the causes of and years immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution.This was suggested somewhere as the most complete, serious history of the revolution available, and I suppose it is that This may have meantdetail than I really wanted Smith, who appears to have left sympathies, is obviously making heroic efforts to be as objective as...

15 December 2018

Steve A. Smith