S. A. Smith

The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 173mm x 111mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 157g
• ISBN-13: 9780192853950
• ISBN-10: 0192853953
• Artikelnr.: 22431405

Autorenporträt

Stephen Smith is Professor of History at the University of Essex. He works on the social history of the Russian and Chinese revoltuions and is author of Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 1983), and A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920-27 (Curzon Press, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

1: The February Revolution and Provisional Government
2: Social Polarization and the Crisis of Power
3: Politics in the Civil War
4: Society and Economy in the Civil War
5: NEP Economy and Politics
6: NEP Culture and Society
Conclusion