Robert Service: Blood on the Snow

Cover: 9781529065855 | Blood on the Snow | The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 | Robert Service

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Beschreibung

In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered question is how to reconcile the two vital narratives that underpin the extraordinary but troubled events of 1917. One puts the blame squarely on Tsar Nicholas II and on Alexander Kerensky's provisional government that deposed him. The other is the view from the bottom, that of the workers and peasants who wanted democratic socialism, not the Bolshevik dictatorship imposed by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and his successors. Service's vivid and revisionist account spans the period from the outbreak of the First World War to Lenin's death in 1924. In it, he reveals that key seeds of the revolution were sown by the Tsar's decision to join the war against Germany in 1914. He shows with brutal clarity how those events played out, eventually leading to the establishment of the totalitarian Soviet regime, which would endure for the next seven decades. Nicholas II, Kerensky and Lenin are to the fore, but Service enriches his narrative by drawing on little-known diaries of those such as the Vologda peasant Alexander Zamaraev, the NCO Alexei Shtukaturov and the Moscow accounts clerk Nikita Okunev. Through the testimony of these ?ordinary' people, Service traces the tortuous path that Russia took through war, revolution and civil war.

Über den Autor

Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. Trotsky: A Biography was awarded the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize. He lives in London.

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	XXXIV 462 S. 16 s/w Bildtaf.
ISBN-13:	9781529065855
ISBN-10:	1529065852
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Service, Robert
Hersteller:	Pan Macmillan Picador
Maße:	194 x 130 x 33 mm
Von/Mit:	Robert Service
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.10.2024
Gewicht:	0,366 kg

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