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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Engelstein, Laura (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Russia in flames [Texte imprimé] : war, revolution, civil war, 1914-1921 / Laura Engelstein
Publication : New York : Oxford University Press, copyright [2018]
Description matérielle : xxvii, 823 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 781-790 and index
"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"--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) -- Russie
URSS -- 1917-1921 (Révolution)
Indice(s) Dewey :
947.084 1 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Russie - 1917-1924
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199794218. - ISBN 0199794219
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45676665b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45676665
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Author's Note ; Part I: Last Years of the Old Empire, 1904-1914 ; Part II: The
Great War : Imperial Self-Destruction ; The Great War Begins ; Germans, Jews, Armenians
; Tearing Themselves Apart ; Conflict and Collapse ; Part III: 1917 : Contest for
Control ; Five Days that Shook the World ; The War Continues ; From Putsch to Coup
; Bolshevik October ; Death of the Constituent Assembly ; Politics from Below ;
Part IV: Sovereign Claims ; The Peace that Wasn't ; Treason and Terror ; Finland's
Civil War ; Baltic Entanglements ; Ukrainian Drama, Act I ; Colonial Repercussions
; Part V: War Within ; The Unquiet Don ; Foreign Bodies ; Trotsky Arms, Siberia
Mobilizes ; Kolchak : the Wild East ; Ukraine, Act II ; War Against the Cossacks
; Miracle on the Vistula ; War Against the Jews ; The Last Page ; War Against the
Peasants ; Part VI: Victory and Retreat ; The Proletariat in the Proletarian Dictatorship
; The Revolution Turns Against Itself ; Conclusion.
