Rethinking the Russian Revolution

For its admirers, the Russian Revolution is a milestone in human progress; for its critics, it is a catastrophe of monstrous proportions. Edward Acton''s stimulating study combines an introduction to the momentous events of 1917 with an analysis of this controversy.>

About the author

Edward Acton is Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, UK, having previously been the Dean of the School of History and the Chair of Modern European History before that. He is the author of Russia: The Tsarist and Soviet Legacy (1995), co-author of the two-volume work, The Soviet Union: A Documentary History (2007), and co-editor of the Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921 (2001).

Product details

• Authors: Edward Acton
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.07.1990
• EAN: 9780713165302
• ISBN: 978-0-7131-6530-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 214 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Reading History
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Russland, UdSSR, Sowjetunion, Europäische Geschichte, 1910 bis 1919 n. Chr.