Miller

Russian Revolution Readings

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780631216384
• ISBN-10: 0631216383
• Artikelnr.: 21864192

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Russian Revolution at the Millennium: MartinMiller.

Part I: On the Eve: Toward Revolution.

Part II: Parties, Movements and Personalities in the Revolutionsof 1917.

Part III: Issues of Class, Gender and Ethnicity in theRevolution.

Part IV: Conclusions and Prospects.

Index.

Rezensionen

"Professor Miller has succeeded in putting together an admirablecollection of important articles on the Russian revolutionaryexperience, and has linked them together with an excellent set ofintroductions." Reginald E. Zelnik, Professor of History,University of California at Berkeley

"Miller has collected some of the best writing from a brilliantfield." Times Higher Education Supplement

"This collection of essays should prove a useful guide forstudents: the editor has provided a sound introduction to the bookand gives a good introduction to the book and gives a goodintroduction to each peice, setting them each in theirhistoriographical context. The book enables us to achieve a clearunderstanding of the state of the debate that surrounds 1917 as weenter the twenty-first century" Peter Waldron, University ofSunderland

"[It] will be of great use to all those teaching the history ofRevolutionary Russia...Miller has brough together some of the bestjournal articals on 1917." Geoffrey Swain, University of theWest of England - Revoltuionary Russia, Vol. 15/June 2002