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Was Revolution Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution
Was Revolution Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution
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Communism's rise and eventual fall in Eastern Europe is one of the great stories of the 20th century. Within this context, the Russian Revolution's role and legacy overshadows all else. In Was Revolution Inevitable?, former British Ambassador to Russia Sir Tony Brenton has gathered essays by
leading historians to trace the events that led to the overthrow of the Tsarist regime and to pinpoint moments when those events could have unfolded in a drastically different way. What would the world be like had Fanny Kaplan succeeded in assassinating Vladimir Lenin in 1918? What if the
Bolsheviks had never imposed the brutal War Communism initiatives that devastated the Russian peasants? What if Rasputin had talked Nicholas II out of involvement in World War One, which effectively led to the Revolution and sealed the demise of the Romanov dynasty? Preeminent scholars, including Orlando Figes, Richard Pipes, Douglas Smith, and Martin Sixsmith, ruminate on these questions and many others, assembling a series of pivotal moments that reveal what might have gone differently, and, if so, what the repercussions would have been. The contributors take
a variety of approaches, from imagining an alternate history, to carefully studying a precarious moment of contingency, to disproving popular imagined alternatives. All of the chapters, however, shed light on Lenin's rise to power and the proliferation of his agenda, while assessing the influence of
the revolution's pivotal moments on Russian-and global-politics. Provocative and illuminating, Was Revolution Inevitable? provides an in-depth exploration of the conflict that for nearly a century has shaped world history. The Russian Revolution put totalitarian communism into power, fueled Nazism and the Second World War, and forged one of the West's greatest
antagonists. Here is a book that scrutinizes how the past, present, and future of global history could have been remarkably different had the events of 1917 unfolded differently and in the process deepens our understanding of what did happen and why.
Author: Tony Brenton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/01/2017
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190658915
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2017 pg. 51
Publishers Weekly 01/16/2017
Choice 11/01/2017
leading historians to trace the events that led to the overthrow of the Tsarist regime and to pinpoint moments when those events could have unfolded in a drastically different way. What would the world be like had Fanny Kaplan succeeded in assassinating Vladimir Lenin in 1918? What if the
Bolsheviks had never imposed the brutal War Communism initiatives that devastated the Russian peasants? What if Rasputin had talked Nicholas II out of involvement in World War One, which effectively led to the Revolution and sealed the demise of the Romanov dynasty? Preeminent scholars, including Orlando Figes, Richard Pipes, Douglas Smith, and Martin Sixsmith, ruminate on these questions and many others, assembling a series of pivotal moments that reveal what might have gone differently, and, if so, what the repercussions would have been. The contributors take
a variety of approaches, from imagining an alternate history, to carefully studying a precarious moment of contingency, to disproving popular imagined alternatives. All of the chapters, however, shed light on Lenin's rise to power and the proliferation of his agenda, while assessing the influence of
the revolution's pivotal moments on Russian-and global-politics. Provocative and illuminating, Was Revolution Inevitable? provides an in-depth exploration of the conflict that for nearly a century has shaped world history. The Russian Revolution put totalitarian communism into power, fueled Nazism and the Second World War, and forged one of the West's greatest
antagonists. Here is a book that scrutinizes how the past, present, and future of global history could have been remarkably different had the events of 1917 unfolded differently and in the process deepens our understanding of what did happen and why.
Author: Tony Brenton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/01/2017
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190658915
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2017 pg. 51
Publishers Weekly 01/16/2017
Choice 11/01/2017
About the Author
Sir Tony Brenton was a British diplomat from 1975 to 2009, completing his career as Chargé d'Affaires in Washington, and then Ambassador in Moscow. He is now a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and is a regular commentator on contemporary Russian issues.
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