The Russian Revolution, 1917 (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 53) - Softcover

Wade, Rex A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107571251 ISBN 13: 9781107571259

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Rex A. Wade presents an essential overview of the Russian Revolution from its beginning in February 1917, through the numerous political crises under Kerensky, to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. This thoroughly revised and expanded third edition introduces students to new approaches to the Revolution's political history and clears away many of the myths and misconceptions that have clouded studies of the period. It also gives due space to the social history of the Revolution, incorporating people and places too often left out of the story, including women, national minority peoples, peasantry, and front soldiers. The third edition has been updated to include new scholarship on topics such as the coming of the Revolution and the beginning of Bolshevik rule, as well as the Revolution's cultural context. This highly readable book is an invaluable guide to one of the most important events of modern history.

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Book Description:

Providing an overview of the Russian Revolution from February 1917 to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution, Rex A. Wade explores the role of political, cultural and economic issues alongside the social history of the Revolution and the growth of ethnic separatism in the Ukraine and elsewhere.

About the Author:

Rex A. Wade is a widely recognised expert on the Russian Revolution. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including The Russian Search for Peace, February-October 1917 (1970) and Red Guards and Works' Militias in the Russian Revolution (1984), as well as many scholarly articles on the revolutionary and civil war eras. He is a long-term active member of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (former President, and recipient of its Senior Scholar Award), among other professional associations and scholarly activities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1107571251
• ISBN 13: 9781107571259
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 370