The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire

by Liliana Riga

Book Overview

This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities - Ukrainians, Latvians, Georgians, Jews, and others - this book examines the shared experiences of assimilation and socioethnic exclusion that underlay their class universalism. It suggests that imperial policies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107425069
• ISBN13: 9781107425064
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"