The Russian Revolution: The Essential Readings (Paperback)

The Russian Revolution: The Essential Readings Book Description

This volume consists of nine chapters which deal with many of the crucial issues of the Russian Revolution, introduced and contextualized particularly for students. The material, all written by prominent specialists, represents some of the most influential work of the last two decades.

The book covers the immediate background to the Revolutions of 1917-- the parties, movements, and personalities as well as issues of social class, gender and ethnicity. It opens with an introduction that presents a number of the main problems embedded in the study of the Revolution, and concludes with an examination of the writing of Russian history after the fall of communism. There is an explanatory introduction by the editor prior to each essay, which provides a framework for understanding the material.

"The Russian Revolution: The Essential Readings" is not only an indispensable guide to the key recent scholarly debates but also an important aid in understanding the themes and arguments around this major turning-point in modern history.
This indispensable volume comprises the work of nine of the most prominent scholars of the Russian Revolution, with introductions by the editor that help students contextualize and understand each piece.

About the Author :

Martin A Miller has contributed to The Russian Revolution: The Essential Readings as an editor. Martin Miller is Professor of History and of Slavic Languages and Literature at Duke University and is the author of a number of books including "Kropotkin" (1976), "The Russian Revolutionary Emigres, 1825-1870" (1986) and most recently, "Freud and the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union" (1997).

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