Presenting a new perspective on the Russian Revolution, a noted historian traces three generational phases to show how the revolution, while it changed in form and character, retained the same idealistic goals throughout. In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offe…
La 4e de couverture porte : " This book presents a series of essays from leading international scholars that expand our understanding of the Russian Revolution through the detailed study of specific localities. Answering the important question of how locality affected the revolu…
"On the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, paeans to the conquering Bolsheviks will be sung. Bloodstained highlights the darker echoes coming from that event, with a mixture of classic and new essays that expose a murderous dictatorship as it developed, paving the way for…
L'histoire de l'insurrection du 1er mars 1921 : 15.000 marins et soldats de cette ville située à l'ouest de Petrograd se soulevèrent contre le gouvernement du Conseil des commissaires du peuple. Ils furent au total 27.000 à protester contre les réquisitions de vivres destinées a…