Author : David Christian
Publisher : Red Globe Press
ISBN 13 : 0333662938
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Imperial and Soviet Russia by : David Christian
Download or read book Imperial and Soviet Russia written by David Christian and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 1997-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible to make sense of the modern world without understanding the vast, and ultimately unsuccessful, experiment with Communism that began in Russia in 1917. Imperial and Soviet Russia offers a coherent interpretation of the turbulent history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union during the last two centuries. Tracing the roots of the Communist experiment in the peasant world of traditional Russia, it shows how the harsh social and economic changes of the nineteenth century created enough dislocation to topple the tsarist regime and bring the Bolsheviks to power in 1917.