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The Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
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From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume
history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the
Russian Revolution. In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian
Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered
the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced Communism to the world.
Between 1917 and 1922, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible
transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse of the Tsarist
regime in the middle of World War I, the Bolsheviks staged a
hostile takeover of the Russian Imperial Army, promoting mutinies
and mass desertions of men in order to fulfill Lenin's program of
turning the "imperialist war" into civil war. By the time the
Bolsheviks had snuffed out the last resistance five years later,
over 20 million people had died, and the Russian economy had
collapsed so completely that Communism had to be temporarily
abandoned. Still, Bolshevik rule was secure, owing to the new
regime's monopoly on force, enabled by illicit arms deals signed
with capitalist neighbors such as Germany and Sweden who sought to
benefit-politically and economically-from the revolutionary chaos
in Russia. Drawing on scores of previously untapped files from
Russian archives and a range of other repositories in Europe,
Turkey, and the United States, McMeekin delivers exciting,
groundbreaking research about this turbulent era. The first
comprehensive history of these momentous events in two decades, The
Russian Revolution combines cutting-edge scholarship and a
fast-paced narrative to shed new light on one of the most
significant turning points of the twentieth century.
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