Suchergebnisse

Kadets before the revolution. Program, organization, and politics -- 1917. The transfer of power ; Ministers, party, and country ; Dual authority and partisanship : the April crisis and its aftermath ; The politics of "state consciousness" in May and June ; The July "interregnum" ; Kadets and Kornilov ; Concessions and conflicts in the last weeks of the provisional regime -- The civil war. The agony of political irrelevance : Kadets in Moscow and Petrograd after October ; Conflicting liberal tactics : Kadets in the Ukraine and South Russia, 1918 ; First months with Denikin : the struggle for balance ; A "model solution" to the problem of power : the Kadet government in the Crimea ; Kadets in Siberia : the tactics of "state revolution" ; The end of party efforts in Siberia and South Russia -- Epilogue : the emigration. Kadets in emigration, 1920-1921 ; Parting of the ways.

Part 1; 1. In the Beginning Were the Words; 2. Who was Lenin?; 3. Who was Trotsky?; 4. Who was Stalin?; 5. Rehearsal for a Revolution; 6. Russian Roulette; Part 2; 7. Two Shots -- 38 Million Dead; 8. Arms and the Woman; 9. The Great Retreat; 10. Letters from Hell; 11. God Help Russia!; 12. White Nights, Red Days; 13. Peace?; Part 3; 14. The Struggle for Power; 15. Enemies at the Gates; 16. Bloody Murder; 17. The Enemies Within; 18. Declaring War on the World; 19. The Inadmissible Letter; Notes

"A century ago, the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty was toppled, replaced first by an interim government and then by the world's first self-proclaimed socialist society. This was no narrative of ten earth-shaking days but one of months and years of compounding strife, a struggle for power by competing ideologies and regions and classes and political parties and ethnicities, all rushing to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of the tsarist regime, brought down by the First World War, that massive exercise in state-driven violence. At the center of it all is the unlikely triumph of Lenin's Bolsheviks, first in their ruthless seizure of power and then, by institutionalizing violence and terror, their eventual victory over equally brutal but less effective opponents. For seven years, through war, revolutionary upheaval, and civil strife, one Russia replaced another; old institutions and ways of life were wiped away or adapted to new purposes. Laura Engelstein's monumental new history of the Russian Revolution brings to life the events that sparked and then fueled the revolution as it spread out across the vestiges of an entire empire--from St. Petersburg and Moscow across the Steppes, the Caucuses, and Siberia, to the Pacific Rim. Russia in Flames is a vivid account of a state in crisis so profound and transformative that it not only shook the world but irrevocably altered it"--Provided by publisher

Man müsste, um die Revolution des Jahres 1917 auf präzise Begriffe zu bringen, von mehreren Revolutionen sprechen, die sich in verschiedenen Lebenskontexten ereigneten. Es gab eine Revolution der Gebildeten gegen die politische Ordnung, eine Erhebung von Bauern und Arbeitern ....

The Winter 2014 issue of "The Harriman News," published by the Harriman Institute.

'The Russian Revolution 1917-1921' by William Henry Chamberlin is reviewed. The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 by William Henry Chamberlin is reviewed.