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Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution (St. Antony's)
I. Getzler
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Description for Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution (St. Antony's)
Hardcover. This work looks at the life of Nikolai Sukhanov who chronicled the events of the Russian Revolution. It shows that Sukhanov, much maligned and neglected for decades, was in fact one of the great moral forces in both the history and historiography of the Russian Revolution. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; BGH; HBG; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
Sukhanov stood at the centre of the Russian revolution as a founding member and ideologist of the Petrograd Soviet and as fearless editor of the leading opposition newspaper. His seven-volume eyewitness memoir of the major events of the Russian revolution is peopled by such leading figures as Lenin, Trotsky, Martov, Chernov, Tsereteli and many more. In the 1920s he stood out in courageous opposition to those of his fellow economists who prepared the Communist Party for Stalin's brutal collectivization. Found guilty at the farcical Menshevik show-trial of 1931 and subsequently victim of a trumped-up charge of spying for Germany, he ... Read more
Sukhanov stood at the centre of the Russian revolution as a founding member and ideologist of the Petrograd Soviet and as fearless editor of the leading opposition newspaper. His seven-volume eyewitness memoir of the major events of the Russian revolution is peopled by such leading figures as Lenin, Trotsky, Martov, Chernov, Tsereteli and many more. In the 1920s he stood out in courageous opposition to those of his fellow economists who prepared the Communist Party for Stalin's brutal collectivization. Found guilty at the farcical Menshevik show-trial of 1931 and subsequently victim of a trumped-up charge of spying for Germany, he ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
St Antony's Series
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333970355
SKU
V9780333970355
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About I. Getzler
ISRAEL GETZLER was born in 1920 in Berlin and spent the war years in Soviet Russia. He is the author of Martov: A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat, Neither Toleration Nor Favor: The Australian Chapter of Jewish Emancipation, Kronstadt: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy, and of numerous articles and chapters in scholarly journals and books.
Reviews for Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution (St. Antony's)
'It is a splendid piece of work, almost a work of scholarly benediction: the message comes through that Sukhanov, much maligned and neglected for decades, was in fact one of the great moral forces in both the history and historiography of the Russian Revolution.' - Robert Service, St Antony's College, Oxford 'This important work will be essential ... Read more