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States and social revolutions : a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China
Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations.
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Russia in flames : war, revolution, civil war, 1914-1921
To mark the centennial of the Bolshevik takeover of Russia, one of its greatest scholars has written a searing and defining account of the Russian Revolution, the fall of the old order, and the creation of the Soviet state.
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The avant-gardists : artists in revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935
A fascinating, narrative biography of the art movement that transformed the modern world, tracing the lives and activities of the key protagonists as they set about a revolution in art.
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Captives of Revolution
The Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) were the largest political party in Russia in the crucial revolutionary year of 1917. Heirs to the legacy of the People's Will movement, the SRs were unabashed proponents of peasant rebellion and revolutionary terror, emphasizing the socialist transformation of the countryside and a democratic system of government as their political goals. They offered a compelling, but still socialist, alternative to the Bolsheviks, yet by the early 1920s their party was shattered and its members were branded as enemies of the revolution. In 1922, the SR leaders became the first fellow socialists to be condemned by the Bolsheviks as \"counter-revolutionaries\" in the prototypical Soviet show trial.InCaptives of the Revolution,Scott B. Smith presents both a convincing account of the defeat of the SRs and a deeper analysis of the significance of the political dynamics of the Civil War for subsequent Soviet history. Once the SRs decided to openly fight the Bolsheviks in 1918, they faced a series of nearly impossible political dilemmas. At the same time, the Bolsheviks fatally undermined the revolutionary credentials of the SRs by successfully appropriating the rhetoric of class struggle, painting a simplistic picture of Reds versus Whites in the Civil War, a rhetorical dominance that they converted into victory over the SRs and any left-wing alternative to Bolshevik dictatorship. In this narrative, the SRs became a bona fide threat to national security and enemies of the people-a characterization that proved so successful that it became an archetype to be used repeatedly by the Soviet leadership against any political opponents, even those from within the Bolshevik party itself.In this groundbreaking study, Smith reveals a more complex and nuanced picture of the postrevolutionary struggle for power in Russia than we have ever seen before and demonstrates that the Civil War-and in particular the struggle with the SRs-was the formative experience of the Bolshevik party and the Soviet state.
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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 : a history
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.
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Was revolution inevitable? : turning points of the Russian Revolution
The former British Ambassador to Russia brings together the top scholars of Russian history to evaluate the causes and effects of the 1917 Revolution, almost a century ago.
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Red Hamlet : the life and ideas of Alexander Bogdanov
In this first full-length biography, James D. White traces Alexander Bogdanov's intellectual development, examining his role in the evolution of Marxist thought in Russia, and his place in the Russian revolutionary movement.
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Reconstructing Lenin : an intellectual biography
\"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist movement, generations of writers on the left and the right have seen fit to embalm him endlessly with superficial analysis or dreary dogma. Now, after the fall of the Soviet Union and 'actually-existing' socialism, it is possible to consider Lenin afresh, with sober senses trained on his historical context and how it shaped his theoretical and political contributions. Reconstructing Lenin, four decades in the making and now available in English for the first time, is an attempt to do just that. Tamâas Krausz, an esteemed Hungarian scholar writing in the tradition of Gyèorgy Lukâacs, Ferenc Tîokei, and Istvâan Mâeszâaros, makes a major contribution to a growing field of contemporary Lenin studies. This rich and penetrating account reveals Lenin busy at the work of revolution, his thought shaped by immediate political events but never straying far from a coherent theoretical perspective. Krausz balances detailed descriptions of Lenin's time and place with lucid explications of his intellectual development, covering a range of topics like war and revolution, dictatorship and democracy, socialism and utopianism. Reconstructing Lenin will change the way you look at a man and a movement; it will also introduce the English-speaking world to a profound radical scholar\"--Provided by publisher.
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Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first
significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society.
According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that
once produced the Soviet Union has also produced a movement away
from capitalism - a long transition that continues even today. In
seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the
trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the
collapse of the Soviet Union, the possible future of Russia - and,
by extension, the future of socialism itself.
Amin manages to combine an analysis of class struggle with
geopolitics - each crucial to understanding Russia's singular and
complex political history. He first looks at the development (or
lack thereof) of Russian capitalism. He sees Russia's geopolitical
isolation as the reason its capitalist empire developed so
differently from Western Europe, and the reason for Russia's
perceived \"backwardness.\" Yet Russia's unique capitalism proved to
be the rich soil in which the Bolsheviks were able to take power,
and Amin covers the rise and fall of the revolutionary Soviet
system. Finally, in a powerful chapter on Ukraine and the rise of
global fascism, Amin lays out the conditions necessary for Russia
to recreate itself, and perhaps again move down the long road to
socialism. Samir Amin's great achievement in this book is not only
to explain Russia's historical tragedies and triumphs, but also to
temper our hopes for a quick end to an increasingly insufferable
capitalism.
This book offers a cornucopia of food for thought, as well as an
enlightening means to transcend reductionist arguments about
\"revolution\" so common on the left. Samir Amin's book - and the
actions that could spring from it - are more necessary than ever,
if the world is to avoid the barbarism toward which capitalism is
hurling humanity.
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