The Russian Revolution
By: Richard Pipes.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 944
ISBN-13: 9780394502410; 9780002720861
Subjects: Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921; Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917
Description: A history of the Russian Revolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [915]-919) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The agony of the old regime: 1905 : the foreshock ; Official Russia ; Rural Russia ; The intelligentsia ; The constitutional experiment ; Russia at war ; Toward the catastrophe ; The February Revolution; title: pt. 2. The Bolsheviks conquer Russia: lenin and the origins of Bolshevism ; The Bolshevik bid for power ; The October coup ; Building the one-party state ; Brest-Litovsk ; The Revolution internationalized ; "War communism" ; War on the village ; Murder of the Imperial Family ; The Red Terror.