Book

Russia in flames : war, revolution, civil war, 1914-1921

Engelstein, Laura, author

Overview

\"A century ago, the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty was toppled, replaced first by an interim government and then by the world's first self-proclaimed socialist society. This was no narrative of ten earth-shaking days but one of months and years of compounding strife, a struggle for power by competing ideologies and regions and classes and political parties and ethnicities, all rushing to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of the tsarist regime, brought down by the First World War, that massive exercise in state-driven violence. At the center of it all is the unlikely triumph of Lenin's Bolsheviks, first in their ruthless seizure of power and then, by institutionalizing violence and terror, their eventual victory over equally brutal but less effective opponents. For seven years, through war, revolutionary upheaval, and civil strife, one Russia replaced another; old institutions and ways of life were wiped away or adapted to new purposes. Laura Engelstein's monumental new history of the Russian Revolution brings to life the events that sparked and then fueled the revolution as it spread out across the vestiges of an entire empire--from St. Petersburg and Moscow across the Steppes, the Caucuses, and Siberia, to the Pacific Rim. Russia in Flames is a vivid account of a state in crisis so profound and transformative that it not only shook the world but irrevocably altered it\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: World War (1914-1918) / Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921) / 1904-1945 / World War, 1914-1918 Russia. / Civil war Soviet Union History. / HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. / HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. / Civil war. / Social conditions. / War Causes. / Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921. / Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Causes. / Russia History 1904-1914. / Soviet Union Social conditions 1917-1945. / Russia. / Soviet Union.
• ISBN: 9780199794218, 9780190931506

Item info:

1 item available

1 item total in all locations

Holdings :

Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DK265.E476 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE