Witnesses to the Russian Revolution
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : Todd Chretien |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608468801 |
This comprehensive chronicle of the Russian Revolution is told through the eyewitness accounts of journalists, political leaders, and ordinary citizens. More than a century ago, workers and peasants in Russia turned the world upside down when they overthrew their tsar, took over their factories, farms, and schools, and set out to build a new society. In this gripping reader, participants and firsthand observers of the revolution tell the inspiring, heroic, and sometimes tragic story of what happened in Russia over the course of 1917. Introduced and edited by Todd Chretien, Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution includes contributions from Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin, John Reed, Louise Bryant, and others.
Author | : Roger Pethybridge |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2017-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1315312751 |
This volume, originally published in 1964, presents a series of slides illustrating the major events of the Russian Revolution. Gathering together many accounts from the memoirs of innumerable people from every walk of life and political frame of mind: communists and tsarists, foreign journalists and ambassadors in Petrograd, Russian soldiers at the front and peasants in the countryside. The accounts of the witnesses allow the reader to relive the chaos and the high drama of the revolution through their eyes and experiences.
Author | : Harvey Pitcher |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2011-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1446413446 |
This is a book on the Russian Revolution with a difference. It unites the formal history and the individual memoir by telling the story of 1917 in the words of eyewitnesses who say history in the making. They witnessed two revolutions - the overthrow of Tsarism in March and the Bolshevik seizure of power in November - and described them with an immediacy that later accounts never achieve. These witnesses are British and American rather than Russian: as outsiders, they could see more of the game. They include diplomats, newspaper correspondents, the military, businessmen, even the occasional English governess. There are also adventurous young American radicals like John Reed, author of Ten Days That Shook the World, and unexpected figures like Arthur Ransome, who married Trotsky's secretary and later wrote such children's classic as Swallows and Amazons. Their brilliant journalism has been unread since 1917, while many other eyewitness accounts are published here for the first time. Harvey Pitcher skilfully weaves their accounts into a vivid and absorbing narrative, treating the witnesses' often conflicting views of the Revolution with impartiality and leaving readers free to form their own judgements. In a new Afterword to the Pimlico edition, Harvey Pitcher relates the events of 1917 to what is happening in Russia today.
Author | : John Pinfold |
Publisher | : Bodleian Library |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781851244607 |
"It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a bullet!" The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution have been studied and written about extensively for the last hundred years, by historians and journalists alike. However, some of the most compelling and valuable accounts are those recorded by eyewitnesses, many of whom were foreign nationals caught in Petrograd at the time. Drawing from the Bodleian Library's rich collections, this book features extracts from letters, journals, diaries and memoirs written by a diverse cast of onlookers. Primarily British, the authors include Sydney Gibbes, English tutor to the royal children, Bertie Stopford, an antiques dealer who smuggled the Vladimir tiara and other Romanov jewels into the UK, and the private secretary to Lord Milner in the British War Cabinet. Contrasting with these are a memoir by Stinton Jones, an engineer who found himself sharing a train compartment with Rasputin, a newspaper report by governess Janet Jeffrey who survived a violent confrontation with the Red Army, and letters home from Labour politician, Arthur Henderson. Accompanied by seventy contemporary illustrations, these first-hand accounts are put into context with introductory notes, giving a fascinating insight into the tumultuous year of 1917.
Author | : Harvey Pitcher |
Publisher | : Trafalgar Square |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780719551710 |
Author | : Richard B. Day |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 697 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004167706 |
The theory of Permanent Revolution has been associated with Leon Trotsky for more than a century since the first Russian Revolution in 1905. Trotsky was the most brilliant proponent of Permanent Revolution but by no means its sole author. The documents in this volume, most of them translated into English for the first time, demonstrate that Trotsky was one of several participants in a debate from 1903-7 that involved numerous leading figures of Russian and European Marxism, including Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring, Parvus and David Ryazanov. This volume reassembles that debate, assesses it with reference to Marx and Engels, and provides new evidence for interpreting the formative years of Russian revolutionary Marxism.
Author | : Claude Anet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Russia |
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Author | : N N Sukanov |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
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ISBN | : 9781378252208 |
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Author | : Richard B. Day |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 2009-02-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9047441931 |
The theory of Permanent Revolution has been associated with Leon Trotsky for more than a century. The documents in this volume demonstrate that Trotsky was one of several participants in a debate over Permanent Revolution from 1903-1907. The volume reassembles that debate and provides new insight into the formative years of Russian Marxism.