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Record Nr.

UNINA9910160346803321

Autore

Faulkner Neil

Titolo

A people's history of the Russian Revolution / / Neil Faulkner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pluto Press, 2017

London, [England] : , : Pluto Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-78680-020-9

1-78680-019-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Left Book Club

Disciplina

947.0841

Soggetti

History / Russia & The Former Soviet Union

History

Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series preface --Acknowledgements --Dates, names, prices and wages --Maps --Introduction --part I: The Spark, 1825-1916 --1. The Regime -- 2. The Revolutionaries --3. Lenin and the Bolsheviks --4. The Great War --part II: The Tempest, 1917 --5. The February Revolution --6. Dual power --7. Counter-revolution --8. The October days --part III: The darkness, 1918-1938 --9. World revolution? --10. The revolution besieged --11. Stalinism --Epilogue: a century of war and revolution --Timeline --Bibliography --Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Russian Revolution was an explosion of mass democracy from below. It transformed the people who took part and inspired tens of millions across the world. Its global impact shook the capitalist system to its foundations and came close to bringing it down. But in the end, the revolutionary movement was destroyed by the most murderous counter-revolutionary terror in history. And because the real history of the revolution is so subversive of class rule everywhere – East, West, and South – it has been buried under a mountain of lies, distortions, and denials. This book sets out to nail every bogus argument about the Russian Revolution – from Tories, Stalinists, and sectarians – and to



present the living reality of a mass movement of millions, organised in participatory assemblies, mobilised for militant action.