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THE RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION
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SEAN MCMEEKIN
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Basic Books, N.Y., 2017, Index, Sources,
Notes, Abbreviations, Illustrations, Map
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Reviewer's Comment:
Obviously there is already a huge volume of books and articles published about
the Russian Revolution. But this book still contains more new information.
Actually, it superceeds any and all prior Western writing on the subject.
The author has used an extsenive volume of material from Russian, French,
British, American (esspecially the Hoover Institution) and German archives. It
is the quantity of archival material from Russia that is extraordinary. The
author tells the entire story, beginning with the 1905 revolution and the
gradual disintegration of the actual power of the Romanovdynasty rior to wWI,
and then the further disintegration of the government's power due to that war.
But it is in his description of Lenin's policies an the actions after gaining
power that the reader will learn to most fresh account. He describes the
extensive assistance he received from a very widespread number of individuals
and institutions. But it is the Russian sources that show and which he
specifically notes. "It was in the Russian archives that this project
truly came to life, where I was able to lean on the expertise of many fine
archivists." Further, he notes this remarkable fact. "My real
archival home in Russia, however, has always been the Communist Party Archivess
(as I call them) Bolshaya Dimitrovka, known officially as RGASPI. The reader
must wonder what President Putin would think of this enterprise now, or anyone
in the Soviet regime prior to the 1990's. For Dr. McMeekin's academic bio. and
some comments about his books see
Wikipedia.
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Prolouge: The Blood of a Peasant
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I Twilight of the Romanovs
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1. The Old Regime, and Its Enemies
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2. 1905: Shock to the System
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3. The Fragile Giant: Tsarist Russia on the
Precipice of War
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4. Russia's War, 1914-1916
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II 1917: A False Dawn
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5. Full of Fight
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6. A Break in the Weather
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7. Army in the Balance
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8. The German Gambit
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9. Twilight of the Liberals
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10. Kerensky's Moment
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III: Hostile Takeover
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11. Lemom Shows His Hand
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12. Army on the Brink
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13. Red October
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14. General Strke
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15. Ceasefire
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16. Russia at Low Ebe
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17. Reprieve
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IV The Bolsheviks in Power
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18. War Communism
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19. Red on White
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20. The Communist International
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21. The Ides of March
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22. "Turn Gold into Bread" Famine
and the War on the Church
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23. Rapallo
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Epilogue: The Specter of Communism
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