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The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921

Steinberg, Mark D., 1953- author

Overview

This is a new history of Russia's revolutionary era as a story of experience-of people making sense of history as it unfolded in their own lives and as they took part in making history themselves. The major events, trends, and explanations, reaching from Bloody Sunday in 1905 to the final shots of the civil war in 1921, are viewed through the doubled perspective of the professional historian looking backward and the contemporary journalist reporting and interpreting history as it happened. The volume then turns toward particular places and people: city streets, peasant villages, the margins of empire (Central Asia, Ukraine, the Jewish Pale), women and men, workers and intellectuals, artists and activists, utopian visionaries, and discontents of all kinds. We spend time with the famous (Vladimir Lenin, Lev Trotsky, Alexandra Kollontai, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Isaac Babel) and with those whose names we don't even know. Key themes include difference and inequality (social, economic, gendered, ethnic), power and resistance, violence, and ideas about justice and freedom.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Revolution (Russia : 1905-1907) / 1905-1907 / Russia History Revolution, 1905-1907. / Russia History Nicholas II, 1894-1917. / Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921. / Russia.
• ISBN: 0199227624, 9780199227624, 0199227632, 9780199227631

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DK263.S83 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE