A Concise History Of The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes
A concise narrative that traces the origins, unfolding, and consequences of the Russian Revolution: it examines how World War I, social and economic pressures, and the collapse of the tsarist order produced the February 1917 uprisings, the failures of the Provisional Government, and the Bolsheviks’ seizure of power in October, followed by civil war and the consolidation of a centralized, authoritarian Soviet state. The account emphasizes political and military developments, the roles and strategies of key revolutionary actors, and the interplay of long-term structural factors—peasant unrest, industrial labor grievances, and military disintegration—that shaped the revolutionary outcome rather than a democratic socialist transition.
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