Russia in revolution: 1890-1918 / Lionel Kochan
1966, First Edition. London; New York: Granada Pub. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #366453
Physical description: 334 pages: maps; 20 cm. Contents: New men in an old society. The worker abandoned. The hungry village revives. The ignorant autocrat. Political changes. On the eve of 1905. Bloody Sunday. The two voices of St Petersburg. The rise and fall of the Duma, 1906-7. The lessons of upheaval--the wager on the strong; theories of revolution; permanent revolution. The mind against society. Before the deluge. The storm breaks. The honeymoon of revolution. Lenin arrives. The first crisis. The government's answer. The revolution gathers strength. Unquiet on the Eastern Front. The summer of discontent. The men on horseback fail. Mate in two moves. Subjects: Soviet Union Politics and government 1894-1917. Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921. Russia Social conditions. Russia History Nicholas II, 1894-1917.
Price: €18.95