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The Bolsheviks in Russian Society - The Revolution and the Civil Wars (Hardcover, New)
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The Bolsheviks in Russian Society - The Revolution and the Civil Wars (Hardcover, New)
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Was the Bolshevik success in Russia during the revolution and civil
war years a legitimate expression of the will of the people? Or did
Russian workers, peasants, bourgeoisie, and upper-class groups pose
numerous challenges to Bolshevik authority, challenges that were
put down through unyielding repression? In this book distinguished
scholars from East and West draw on recently opened archives to
challenge the commonly held view that the Bolsheviks enjoyed
widespread support and that their early history was simply a march
toward inevitable victory. They show instead that during this
period Russian society was at war with itself and with the
Bolsheviks. Authors discuss such previously neglected subjects as
government policies toward women and toward religious institutions,
the protests of workers and peasants, and the anti-Bolshevik
movements and parties. In particular, they investigate the actions
of other political parties and White leaders, the peasant
rebellions and workers' strikes, Bolshevik operations against the
church, attitudes toward peasant and working-class women, and new
data on Lenin (the last in a chapter by Richard Pipes). Describing
not one civil war but several social, political, and military
confrontations going on simultaneously, they portray a Russia in
turmoil and an outcome that was by no means inevitable.
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