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Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
Laura Engelstein
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Description for Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
Hardback. To mark the centennial of the Bolshevik takeover of Russia, one of its greatest scholars has written a searing and defining account of the Russian Revolution, the fall of the old order, and the creation of the Soviet state. Num Pages: 848 pages, 32. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV4; HBWN. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr put it decades ago, these earth-shaking days were a landmark in the emancipation of mankind from past oppression or a crime and a disaster. Some things are clear. After the implosion of the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty as a result of the First World War, Russia was in crisis -one interim ... Read more
October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr put it decades ago, these earth-shaking days were a landmark in the emancipation of mankind from past oppression or a crime and a disaster. Some things are clear. After the implosion of the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty as a result of the First World War, Russia was in crisis -one interim ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
856
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199794218
SKU
9780199794218
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About Laura Engelstein
Laura Engelstein is Henry S. McNeil Professor Emerita of Russian History at Yale University, where she served as chair of the History Department, and Professor Emerita at Princeton.
Reviews for Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
Engelstein delivers a clear-eyed ... account of the difficulties confronting the population, now citizens of a country where the dream of democracy had been abandoned, and everyone was subject to the arbitrary swing of the sword.
Publishers Weekly
[Engelstein] succeeds in presenting a thorough history of these wars and revolutions in an understandable and ... Read more
Publishers Weekly
[Engelstein] succeeds in presenting a thorough history of these wars and revolutions in an understandable and ... Read more