The Unknown Revolution 1917 1921

Author : Voline
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629636002
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unknown Revolution written by Voline and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the untold story of the Russian Revolution: its antecedents, its far-reaching changes, its betrayal by Bolshevik terror, and the massive resistance of non-Bolshevik revolutionaries. This in-depth, eyewitness history written by Voline, an outspoken activist in the Russian Revolution, is accompanied by a biography of the author by Rudolf Rocker and a contemporary introduction by anarchist historian Iain McKay. Significant attention is given to what the author describes as “struggles for the real Social Revolution”; that is, the uprising of the sailors and workers of Kronstadt in 1921, and the peasant movement that Nestor Makhno led in Ukraine. These movements, which sought to defend the social revolution from destruction by the politicians, provide important material for a clearer understanding of both the original objectives of the Russian Revolution and the problems with which all revolutions with far-reaching social objectives have to contend. Drawing on the revolutionary press of the time, Voline reveals the deep cleavage between the objectives of the libertarians and those of the Bolsheviks, differences which the latter “resolved” by ruthlessly eliminating all who stood in their way in the struggle for power. This edition is a translation of the full text of La Révolution inconnue, originally published in French in 1947. It reinstates material omitted from earlier English-language editions and reproduces the complete text of the original volumes.

Author : Volin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914156079
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921 written by Volin and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Volin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Revolution written by Volin and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Volin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914156062
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921 written by Volin and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Volin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 717 pages
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Download or read book The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921 written by Volin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300076622
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Lenin written by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lenin - the man, the revolutionary, and the world leader - has remained an enigma, part myth arising from the tumult of the Russian Revolution and part image carefully controlled for nearly seventy years by the leaders of the Soviet Union and their sympathizers abroad. The Unknown Lenin, containing long concealed documents from the Soviet archives, helps correct the myth and revise the image. Lenin emerges here as a ruthless, manipulative leader who used terror, subversion, and persecution to achieve his goals.

Author : Eric Lee
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786990954
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Experiment written by Eric Lee and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very idea of socialism. The experience of Georgia, which declared its independence from Russia in 1918, tells a different story. In this riveting history, Eric Lee explores the little-known saga of the country’s experiment in democratic socialism, detailing the epic, turbulent events of this forgotten chapter in revolutionary history. Along the way, we are introduced to a remarkable cast of characters – among them the men and women who strove for a more inclusive vision of socialism that featured multi-party elections, freedom of speech and assembly, a free press and a civil society grounded in trade unions and cooperatives. Though the Georgian Democratic Republic lasted for just three years before it was brutally crushed on the orders of Stalin, it was able to offer, however briefly, a glimpse of a more humane alternative to the Soviet reality that was to come.

Author : Eduard Martynovich Dune
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062773
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes of a Red Guard written by Eduard Martynovich Dune and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling never-before-published account takes the reader into Red Guard and Red Army units, Moscow factories, workers' homes, and to the unfamiliar world of feudal Dagestan. Worker-revolutionary Eduard Dune was seventeen when the Russian revolution began. He joined the Bolshevik party and fought with the Moscow Red Guard during the October revolution. Notes of a Red Guard is his candid account of what happened through 1921. This uncensored account offers a rare glimpse of revolutionary Russia from the perspective of an educated, skilled worker who became a rank-and-file participant.

Author : Georg Schild
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Ideology and Realpolitik written by Georg Schild and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995-06-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise interpretation of Wilson's Russian policy, Schild challenges the belief that Wilson's response to the 1917 October Revolution was exclusively ideological. Contrary to the belief that when Wilson sent American troops to intervene in 1918, his goal was to establish a democratic order in Russia, this book shows that his actions were more pragmatic. Wilson's belief in the superiority of liberalism over totalitarianism was so strong that he expected democratic forces in Russia to take power without outside aid. At the Paris Peace Conference, he rejected suggestions for an anti-Soviet crusade. His July 1918 decision to intervene was not a part of Wilson's ideology. It was based on an effort to maintain unity with Britain and France during the final phase of World War I. Wilson did, indeed, have a liberal anti-Bolshevik agenda. However, his belief in the superiority of liberalism over totalitarianism was so strong that he expected democratic forces in Russia to take power without any outside aid. At the Paris Peace Conference, he rejected all suggestions for a Western anti-Soviet crusade or for a division of Russia. His 1918 decision to intervene was not part of Wilson's ideological confrontation with the Bolsheviks. It was based on an effort to maintain unity with the British and French governments during the final phase of World War I. Wilson's Russian policy, the author concludes, was determined both by his ideological anti-Bolshevism and pragmatic demands for alliance cohesion.

Author : Jeffrey Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108484468
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Firebird and the Fox written by Jeffrey Brooks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.