A People's History of the Russian Revolution

Neil Faulkner

Description

The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In this fast-paced introduction, Neil Faulkner debunks the myths that continue to shroud it, showing how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies, mobilised for militant action and destroyed a regime of landlords, profiteers and warmongers.



Faulkner rejects caricatures of Lenin and the Bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators, 'democratic-centralists' or the progenitors of Stalinist dictatorship; though short-lived, the Revolution of October 1917 was an explosion of democracy and creativity. Crushed by bloody counter-revolution, its socialist vision was ultimately displaced by a monstrous form of bureaucratic state-capitalism.



Laced with first-hand testimony, this history rescues the democratic essence of the revolution from its detractors and deniers, offering a perfect primer for the modern reader.



Published in partnership with the Left Book Club.
Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Dates, Names, Prices and Wages

Maps

Introduction

Part I: The Spark, 1825-1916

1. The Regime

2. The Revolutionaries

3. Lenin and the Bolsheviks

4. The Great War

Part II: The Tempest, 1917

5. The February Revolution

6. Dual Power

7. Counter-Revolution

8. The October Days

Part III: The Darkness, 1918-1938

9. World Revolution?

10. The Revolution Besieged

11. Stalinism

Epilogue: A Century of War and Revolution

Timeline

Bibliography

Index

Sujets

• 1914-1918
• Political Parties
• Political Process
• Political Ideologies
• Political Freedom
• 20th Century
• Modern
• HISTORY
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Histoire
• Revolutions
• Andréi Búbnov
• Lavr Kornílov
• Soviets
• Aleksandr Kérenski
• León Trotsky
• Moscú
• Lenin
• Iósif Stalin
• Chechenia
• Saint Petersburg
• Vladimir Lenin
• Communism
• Revolutionary
• World War I
• Andrei Bubnov
• Russian Ground Forces
• Laborer
• Interwar period
• Modern history
• Russian Revolution
• Constitutional Democratic Party
• Central Executive Committee
• February Revolution
• Menshevik
• General officer
• Military
• Peasant
• Soviet Union
• Revolution
• Russia
• Political party
• Politics
• October Revolution
• Moscow
• Leon Trotsky
• Joseph Stalin
• Economics
• Chechnya
• Bolshevik
• Alexander Kerensky
• Duma
• General
• Révolution russe
• Kornilov
• Moscow (homonymie)
• Julius Martov
• Communisme
• Obermodern-Zutzendorf
• Soviet
• Alexandre Kerensky
• Lénine
• Léon Trotski
• Joseph Staline
• Saint-Pétersbourg
• Première Guerre mondiale
• 1917
• Russie
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 janvier 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781786800190
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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Inroducîon

PAR I: HE SPARK, –

 1  2  3  4

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 5  6  7  8

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PAR III: HE DARKNESS, –  9 Word Revouîon? 10 e Revouîon Besîeged 11 Saînîsm

Epilogue: A Cenury of War and Revoluion Timeline Bibliograpy Index

vîî îx xî xîî

1

7 27 52 88

111 133 157 174

207 223 237

251 254 265 268

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viii◆ A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Ye e as decade as seen îsorîcay unprecedened eves o parîcîpaîon în sree proes, împyîng a mass audîence or progressîve aernaîves. Bu socîaîs îdeas are no onger, as în e îmmedîae pos-war perîod, ‘în e ea’. One o neoîbera- îsm’s acîevemens as been o undermîne îdeas o soîdarîy, coecîve provîsîon, and pubîc servîce. e Le Book Cub aspîres o mee îs îdeoogîca caenge. Our aîm îs o oer îg-quaîy books a aordabe prîces a are careuy seeced o address e cenra îssues o e day and o be accessîbe o a wîde genera audîence. Our îs represens e u range o progressîve radîîons, perspecîves, and îdeas. We ope e books wî be used as e basîs o readîng cîrces, dîscussîon groups, and oer educaîona and cuura acîvîîes reevan o deveopîng, sarîng, and dîssem- înaîng îdeas or cange în e îneress o e common peope a ome and abroad.

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Acknowledgemens

My undersandîng o e Russîan Revouîon as been saped by couness ecures, meeîngs, and dîscussîons învovîng undreds o revouîonary acîvîss. I îs împossîbe o reca, e aone îs, a ose wo, a dîeren îmes and în dîeren ways, ave înuenced my perspecîve. I soud peraps record a, rom 1980 o 2010, I was an acîve member o e Socîaîs Workers Pary în Brîaîn. For muc o a îme, especîay în e 1980s, I beîeve e SWP o ave been a sma bu eecîve revouîonary organîsaîon a punced above îs weîg. I aso beîeve î o ave been a powerouse o Marxîs eory. Is degeneraîon îno a se- reerencîng and se-perpeuaîng sec îs, în my vîew, a ragîc deveopmen în e îsory o e Brîîs Le. Bu î woud be dîsones no o make î cear a mos o wa I know abou revouîon  bo as îsorîan and acîvîs  I owe o e SWP o e 1980s. I ereore owe a deep deb o graîude o a e SWP comrades aongsîde wom I oug e Nazîs, suppored e mîners, reused o pay e po ax, and, wen we ad îme, debaed e îsory o e înerna- îona workîng-cass movemen. Sînce 2010, I ave ormed many new and rewardîng poîîca rîendsîps, and ese ave conrîbued, I beîeve, o a rîcer, more nuanced undersandîng o e Russîan Revouîon. No eas, e degeneraîon o e Brîîs Le over e as wo or ree decades  wîc îs a generîc process, no someîng resrîced o e SWP  as gîven me a cearer undersandîng a revouîonary parîes are buî by e masses emseves în