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Russia in Flames - War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921 (Paperback)
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Russia in Flames - War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921 (Paperback)
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October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian
Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a
hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the
world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues
over whether, as historian E. H. Carr put it decades ago, these
earth-shaking days were a "landmark in the emancipation of mankind
from past oppression" or "a crime and a disaster." Some things are
clear. After the implosion of the three-hundred-year-old Romanov
dynasty as a result of the First World War, Russia was in
crisis-one interim government replaced another in the vacuum left
by imperial collapse. In this monumental and sweeping new account,
Laura Engelstein delves into the seven years of chaos surrounding
1917-the war, the revolutionary upheaval, and the civil strife it
provoked. These were years of breakdown and brutal violence on all
sides, punctuated by the decisive turning points of February and
October. As Engelstein proves definitively, the struggle for power
engaged not only civil society and party leaders, but the broad
masses of the population and every corner of the far-reaching
empire, well beyond Moscow and Petrograd. Yet in addition to the
bloodshed they unleashed, the revolution and civil war revealed
democratic yearnings, even if ideas of what constituted "democracy"
differed dramatically. Into that vacuum left by the Romanov
collapse rushed long-suppressed hopes and dreams about social
justice and equality. But any possible experiment in self-rule was
cut short by the October Revolution. Under the banner of true
democracy, and against all odds, the Bolshevik triumph resulted in
the ruthless repression of all opposition. The Bolsheviks managed
to harness the social breakdown caused by the war and
institutionalize violence as a method of state-building, creating a
new society and a new form of power. Russia in Flames offers a
compelling narrative of heroic effort and brutal disappointment,
revealing that what happened during these seven years was both a
landmark in the emancipation of Russia from past oppression and a
world-shattering disaster. As regimes fall and rise, as civil wars
erupt, as state violence targets civilian populations, it is a
story that remains profoundly and enduringly relevant.
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