Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991
Subtitle: a history
By: Orlando Figes
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780805091311
Subjects: Insurgency; Revolutions; History
Description: Presenting a new perspective on the Russian Revolution, a noted historian traces three generational phases to show how the revolution, while it changed in form and character, retained the same idealistic goals throughout.
Notes: Contains primary source material.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: The start; title: The "dress rehearsal"; title: Last hopes; title: War and revolution; title: The February Revolution; title: Lenin's revolution; title: Civil war and the making of the Soviet system; title: Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin; title: The Revolution's golden age?; title: The great break; title: Stalin's crisis; title: Communism in retreat?; title: The Great Terror; title: Revolution for export; title: War and revolution; title: Revolution and Cold War; title: The beginning of the end; title: Mature socialism; title: The last Bolshevik; title: Judgement.