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A People's History of the Russian Revolution
Contributor(s): Faulkner, Neil (Author)
ISBN: 0745399037     ISBN-13: 9780745399034
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
OUR PRICE:   $18.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union
- History | Revolutionary
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
Dewey: 947.084
Series: Left Book Club
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.70 lbs) 208 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Russia
- Chronological Period - 1900-1919
 
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Publisher Description:
The Russian Revolution may be the most misunderstood and misrepresented event in modern history, its history told in a mix of legends and anecdotes. In A People's History of the Russian Revolution, Neil Faulkner sets out to debunk the myths and pry fact from fiction, putting at the heart of the story the Russian people who are the true heroes of this tumultuous tale. In this fast-paced introduction, Faulkner tells the powerful narrative of how millions of people came together in a mass movement, organized democratic assemblies, mobilized for militant action, and overturned a vast regime of landlords, profiteers, and warmongers.

Faulkner rejects caricatures of Lenin and the Bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators or the progenitors of Stalinist dictatorship, and forcefully argues that the Russian Revolution was an explosion of democracy and creativity--and that it was crushed by bloody counter-revolution and replaced with a form of bureaucratic state-capitalism.

Grounded by powerful first-hand testimony, this history marks the centenary of the Revolution by restoring the democratic essence of the revolution, offering a perfect primer for the modern reader.

Contributor Bio(s): Faulkner, Neil: - Neil Faulkner is a leading Marxist historian and a research fellow at the University of Bristol. He is the author of many books including A Marxist History of the World: from Neanderthals to Neoliberals, published by Pluto Press, and Lawrence of Arabia's War.