The Counter-Revolution in Revolution: Images of Thermidor and Napoleon at the Time of the Russian Revolution and Civil War

by Dmitry Shlapentokh

The collapse of the imperial regime excited Russian intellectuals of all political persuasions. Although eager to draw comparisons between pre-revolutionary Russia and revolutionary France, the political elite saw the outcome in their own country as vastly different to the events which had occurred in France. Looking to the past they tried to predict the future - how their revolution would end. As the political situation became more unstable, there...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333669142
• ISBN13: 9780333669143
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"