The Workers' Revolution in Russia, 1917: The View from Below

by Daniel H. Kaiser

Book Overview

More than seventy years after the birth of the Soviet Union, the events that brought the Bolsheviks to power are still poorly understood. Ever since the first reports of the revolution reached Western audiences, analysts have blamed or credited Lenin and his party for overthrowing the old order singlehandedly. Yet studies of the revolution in recent years have revealed the depth of the crisis through which Tsarist society passed late in the nineteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521349710
• ISBN13: 9780521349710
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"