History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks

by Sean McMeekin

Book Overview

How Lenin's regime turned Russia's priceless cultural patrimony into armored cars, trains, planes, and machine guns

Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: How did the Bolsheviks, despite facing a world of enemies and leaving nothing but economic ruin in their path, manage to stay in power through five long years of civil war? In this penetrating book, Sean McMeekin draws on previously undiscovered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300135580
• ISBN13: 9780300135589
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"