Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Death
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0712356789 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorEkaterina Rogatchevskaia is Lead Curator of East European Collections at the British Library.
Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia is Lead Curator of East European Collections at the British Library.
Later that year a new political force, the socialist Bolshevik Party, seized power under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin. This book accompanies a major exhibition that will reexamine the Russian Revolution in light of recent research, focusing on the experiences of ordinary Russians living through extraordinary times. Here, leading experts on Russian history reveal the Revolution as a utopian project that had traumatic consequences for people across Russia and beyond.. A bloody civil war and period of extraordinary hardship for Russians finally led to the establishment of the Soviet Union. In February 1917, in the middle of World War I and following months of protest and political unrest, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated. The Revolution was not a single event but a complex process of dramatic change. One hundred years ago events in Russia took the world by storm