Traces the life of the Soviet leader, uses the secret Soviet archives to reveal new information, and argues that Lenin set in motion many of the worst excesses of the state later expanded by Stalin.
A fresh and original account of Lenin's personal life and political career.
"The Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926, covers the history of this period through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on individuals, political and…
"Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926, covers the history of the period through a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. Its nearly 2,000 cross-referenced entries include individuals, political and governmental institutions …
Kolektiv historiku z Institutu mezinárodních studií Fakulty sociálních ved Univerzity Karlovy v Praze sleduje politické dejiny SSSR v kontextu porevolucních ekonomických a sociálních zmen. Odlišne od tradicní historiografie pojímá príciny a povahu ruské revoluce a sociálního vrs…
Russia under the Bolshevik Regime is the sequel to Richard Pipes's classic The Russian Revolution, and covers the time from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to the death of Lenin in 1924, when all the institutions and nearly all the practices of future Stalinism were in pla…
Scott B. Smith presents both a convincing account of the defeat of the Socialist Revolutionaries and a deeper analysis of the significance of the political dynamics of the civil war for subsequent Soviet history.
