Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 272 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9781786800206
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9781786800213
,
9781786800190
Serie:
Left book club
Inhalt:
The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In A People's History of the Russian Revolution, Neil Faulkner sets out to debunk the myths. In this fast-paced introduction to the tumultuous events, the Russian people are the heroes. Faulkner shows how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies, mobilised for militant action, destroyed a regime of landlords, profiteers and warmongers. He rejects caricatures of Lenin and the Bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators, 'democratic-centralists' or the progenitors of Stalinist dictatorship. He argues that the Russian Revolution was an explosion of democracy and creativity - and that it was crushed by bloody counter-revolution and replaced with a monstrous form of bureaucratic state-capitalism. Laced with first-hand testimony, this history seeks to rescue the democratic essence of the revolution from its detractors and deniers, offering a perfect primer for the modern reader
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-7453-9903-4
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-7453-9904-1
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
Schlagwort(e):
Russland
;
Februarrevolution
;
Oktoberrevolution
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Geschichte 1825-1938
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