Three Whys Of The Russian Revolution (The Barbara Frum Lectureship) - Softcover

Richard Pipes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679307931 ISBN 13: 9780679307938

Publisher: Vintage Canada, 1996

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Richard Pipes conducts a succinct inquest, asking: Why did tsarism fall virtually overnight? Why did the Bolsheviks - the smallest of the three main Russian radical parties - triumph? Why did Stalin succeed Lenin? In answering these questions, Pipes gives us our clearest picture yet of the vulnerability of the tsarist system as well as of the ruthless opportunism that enabled Lenin to seize the reins of power. Dispelling years of revisionist mythology, Pipes demonstrates the extent to which Stalin was the logical heir to a party that had assumed control over every aspect of Russian life.

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remost authority on Russian communism--the author of the definitive studies The Russian Revolution and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime--now addresses the enigmas of that country's 70-year enthrallment with communism. Succinct, lucidly argued, and lively in its detail, this book offers a brilliant summation of the life's work of a master historian.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679307931
• ISBN 13: 9780679307938
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 84