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Russia in Flames : War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
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A century ago, the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty was toppled, replaced first by an interim government and then by the world's first self-proclaimed socialist society. This was no narrative of ten earth-shaking days but one of months and years of compounding strife, a struggle for power by competing ideologies and regions and classes and political parties and ethnicities, all rushing to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of the tsarist regime, brought down by the First World War, that massive exercise in state-driven violence. At the center of it all is the unlikely triumph of Lenin's Bolsheviks, first in their ruthless seizure of power and then, by institutionalizing violence and terror, their eventual victory over equally brutal but less effective opponents. For seven years, through war, revolutionary upheaval, and civil strife, one Russia replaced another; old institutions and ways of life were wiped away or adapted to new purposes. Laura Engelstein's monumental new history of the Russian Revolution brings to life the events that sparked and then fueled the revolution as it spread out across the vestiges of an entire empire - from St. Petersburg and Moscow across the Steppes, the Caucuses, and Siberia, to the Pacific Rim. Russia in Flames is a vivid account of a state in crisis so profound and transformative that it not only shook the world but irrevocably altered it.
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"This is the first history of the Russian Revolution that takes seriously the fact that Russians were a minority in the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional Russian empire. With verve and ambition, Engelstein chronicles the history of war and revolution as they swept across this vast empire. In this centenary year there will be many books on 1917, but none will be as original in conception and as bold in argument as this. This is history written on an epic scale by a historian at the height of her powers." - S. A. Smith, All Souls College, Oxford, author of Russia in Revolution
"A simultaneously sweeping and focused history of the Bolshevik Revolution . . . A comprehensive, ideologically detached, and enormously enlightening work of Russian history." -Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW
"[Engelstein] succeeds in presenting a thorough history of these wars and revolutions in an understandable and engaging manner. In this full, richly detailed study, the author effectively argues the Bolsheviks were ultimately triumphant because they focused on power and were more willing to employ violence against their adversaries, and one another, with horrific results."-Library Journal
"Engelstein delivers a clear-eyed . . . account of the difficulties confronting the population, now citizens of a country where
"the dream of democracy had been abandoned," and everyone was subject to the
"arbitrary swing of the sword.""-Publishers Weekly
Table Of Contents
| List of Maps | p. xiii |
| Author's Note | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| Last Years of the Old Empire, 1904-1914 | p. 1 |
| The Great War: Imperial Self-Destruction | p. 29 |
| The Great War Begins | p. 31 |
| Germans, Jews, Armenians | p. 53 |
| Tearing Themselves Apart | p. 68 |
| Conflict and Collapse | p. 83 |
| 1917: Contest for Control | p. 101 |
| Five Days That Shook the World | p. 103 |
| The War Continues | p. 131 |
| From Putsch to Coup | p. 159 |
| Bolshevik October | p. 177 |
| Death of the Constituent Assembly | p. 198 |
| Politics from Below | p. 216 |
| Sovereign Claims | p. 235 |
| The Peace That Wasn't | p. 237 |
| Treason and Terror | p. 255 |
| Finland's Civil War | p. 277 |
| Baltic Entanglements | p. 296 |
| Ukrainian Drama, Act I | p. 312 |
| Colonial Repercussions | p. 328 |
| War Within | p. 361 |
| The Unquiet Don | p. 363 |
| Foreign Bodies | p. 383 |
| Trotsky Arms, Siberia Mobilizes | p. 401 |
| Kolchak-the Wild East | p. 417 |
| Ukraine, Act II | p. 445 |
| War Against the Cossacks | p. 469 |
| Miracle on the Vistula | p. 487 |
| War Against the Jews | p. 511 |
| The Last Page | p. 541 |
| War Against the Peasants | p. 560 |
| Victory and Retreat | p. 583 |
| The Proletariat in the Proletarian Dictatorship | p. 585 |
| The Revolution Turns Against Itself | p. 606 |
| Conclusion | p. 625 |
| Notes | p. 633 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 779 |
| Bibliographic Essay | p. 781 |
| Index | p. 791 |
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A century ago, the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty was toppled, replaced first by an interim government and then by the world's first self-proclaimed socialist society. This was no narrative of ten earth-shaking days but one of months and year ...
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A century ago, the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty was toppled, replaced first by an interim government and then by the world's first self-proclaimed socialist society. This was no narrative of ten earth-shaking days but one of months and years of compounding strife, a struggle for power by competing ideologies and regions and classes and political parties and ethnicities, all rushing to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of the tsarist regime, brought down by the First World War, that massive exercise in state-driven violence. At the center of it all is the unlikely triumph of Lenin's Bolsheviks, first in their ruthless seizure of power and then, by institutionalizing violence and terror, their eventual victory over equally brutal but less effective opponents. For seven years, through war, revolutionary upheaval, and civil strife, one Russia replaced another; old institutions and ways of life were wiped away or adapted to new purposes. Laura Engelstein's monumental new history of the Russian Revolution brings to life the events that sparked and then fueled the revolution as it spread out across the vestiges of an entire empire - from St. Petersburg and Moscow across the Steppes, the Caucuses, and Siberia, to the Pacific Rim. Russia in Flames is a vivid account of a state in crisis so profound and transformative that it not only shook the world but irrevocably altered it.
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Professional Reviews
"This is the first history of the Russian Revolution that takes seriously the fact that Russians were a minority in the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional Russian empire. With verve and ambition, Engelstein chronicles the history of war and revolution as they swept across this vast empire. In this centenary year there will be many books on 1917, but none will be as original in conception and as bold in argument as this. This is history written on an epic scale by a historian at the height of her powers." - S. A. Smith, All Souls College, Oxford, author of Russia in Revolution
"A simultaneously sweeping and focused history of the Bolshevik Revolution . . . A comprehensive, ideologically detached, and enormously enlightening work of Russian history." -Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW
"[Engelstein] succeeds in presenting a thorough history of these wars and revolutions in an understandable and engaging manner. In this full, richly detailed study, the author effectively argues the Bolsheviks were ultimately triumphant because they focused on power and were more willing to employ violence against their adversaries, and one another, with horrific results."-Library Journal
"Engelstein delivers a clear-eyed . . . account of the difficulties confronting the population, now citizens of a country where
"the dream of democracy had been abandoned," and everyone was subject to the
"arbitrary swing of the sword.""-Publishers Weekly
Table Of Contents
| List of Maps | p. xiii |
| Author's Note | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| Last Years of the Old Empire, 1904-1914 | p. 1 |
| The Great War: Imperial Self-Destruction | p. 29 |
| The Great War Begins | p. 31 |
| Germans, Jews, Armenians | p. 53 |
| Tearing Themselves Apart | p. 68 |
| Conflict and Collapse | p. 83 |
| 1917: Contest for Control | p. 101 |
| Five Days That Shook the World | p. 103 |
| The War Continues | p. 131 |
| From Putsch to Coup | p. 159 |
| Bolshevik October | p. 177 |
| Death of the Constituent Assembly | p. 198 |
| Politics from Below | p. 216 |
| Sovereign Claims | p. 235 |
| The Peace That Wasn't | p. 237 |
| Treason and Terror | p. 255 |
| Finland's Civil War | p. 277 |
| Baltic Entanglements | p. 296 |
| Ukrainian Drama, Act I | p. 312 |
| Colonial Repercussions | p. 328 |
| War Within | p. 361 |
| The Unquiet Don | p. 363 |
| Foreign Bodies | p. 383 |
| Trotsky Arms, Siberia Mobilizes | p. 401 |
| Kolchak-the Wild East | p. 417 |
| Ukraine, Act II | p. 445 |
| War Against the Cossacks | p. 469 |
| Miracle on the Vistula | p. 487 |
| War Against the Jews | p. 511 |
| The Last Page | p. 541 |
| War Against the Peasants | p. 560 |
| Victory and Retreat | p. 583 |
| The Proletariat in the Proletarian Dictatorship | p. 585 |
| The Revolution Turns Against Itself | p. 606 |
| Conclusion | p. 625 |
| Notes | p. 633 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 779 |
| Bibliographic Essay | p. 781 |
| Index | p. 791 |
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