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Laura Engelstein, one of the greatest scholars of Russian history, has written a searing and defining account of the Russian Revolution, the fall of the old order, and the creation of the Soviet state.
List of contents
- List of Maps
- Author's Note
- Introduction
- Part I: Last Years of the Old Empire, 1904-1914
- Part II: The Great War: Imperial Self-Destruction
- 1: The Great War Begins
- 2: Germans, Jews, Armenians
- 3: Tearing Themselves Apart
- 4: Conflict and Collapse
- Part III: 1917: Contest for Control
- 1: Five Days that Shook the World
- 2: The War Continues
- 3: From Putsch to Coup
- 4: Bolshevik October
- 5: Death of the Constituent Assembly
- 6: Politics from Below
- Part IV: Sovereign Claims
- 1: The Peace that Wasn't
- 2: Treason and Terror
- 3: Finland's Civil War
- 4: Baltic Entanglements
- 5: Ukrainian Drama, Act I
- 6: Colonial Repercussions
- Part V: War Within
- 1: The Unquiet Don
- 2: Foreign Bodies
- 3: Trotsky Arms, Siberia Mobilizes
- 4: Kolchak-the Wild East
- 5: Ukraine, Act II
- 6: War Against the Cossacks
- 7: Miracle on the Vistula
- 8: War Against the Jews
- 9: The Last Page
- 10: War Against the Peasants
- Part VI: Victory and Retreat
- 1: The Proletariat in the Proletarian Dictatorship
- 2: The Revolution Turns Against Itself
- Conclusion: Revolution Against Itself
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
About the author
Laura Engelstein is Henry S. McNeil Professor Emerita of Russian History at Yale University, where she served as chair of the History Department, and Professor Emerita at Princeton.
Summary
Laura Engelstein, one of the greatest scholars of Russian history, has written a searing and defining account of the Russian Revolution, the fall of the old order, and the creation of the Soviet state.
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Magisterial . . . . Engelstein's monumental achievement is to have wrestled the sprawling ideological, ethnic and social conflicts, the shifting fronts, the coalescing and disintegrating armies and political fiefdoms, and the foreign entanglements into a compelling account of the disintegration of the old empire and the birth of the new.
