Bøger af Alexander Rabinowitch

... a comprehensive look at an enigmatic era... " ΓÇöChoiceThis provocative collection of essays certainly takes some of the polish off Soviet socialismΓÇÖs golden age." ΓÇöJournal of Interdisciplinary HistoryThe authors and editors of this splendid volume deserve great praise. Their work moves the field of Soviet history several large steps forward." ΓÇöSlavic ReviewLenin''s New Economic Policy of the 1920s, although a relatively free and open potential alternative to Soviet communism, was also a time of extreme tension, as Russian society and culture were rocked by the forces of resistance and change. These essays examine the social and cultural dimensions of NEP in urban and rural Russia in the years before Stalin and rapid industrialization.

First published in 1968, this book on revolutionary events in Petrograd in the summer of 1917 revises the established view of the Bolsheviks as a monolithic party. It documents how the party's pluralistic nature had crucial implications for the outcome of the revolution.

The Bolsheviks Come to Power is one of the most important histories of the Russian Revolution to challenge the mainstream narratives. Originally published to great acclaim in 2004, this new edition marks the 100th anniversary of one of the explosive and game-changing moments in modern times.*BR**BR*In this absorbing narrative, Alexander Rabinowitch counters the claims by mainstream historians that the revolution was a military coup led by Lenin and a small band of fanatics. He refutes the Soviet myth that the party's triumph in the October Revolution was inevitable, and explains the ebbs and flows of the revolutionary period, tracing the moods of the working class and the political positions of the Bolsheviks at different historical moments, including the immediate aftermath of the February Revolution, the July Days, the Kornilov affair, and up to and including the October Revolution itself.*BR**BR*Drawn from a wealth of primary sources and archival material, this new edition of Rabinowitch's classic account is a must-have for anyone interested in clearing away the tired platitudes of mainstream historians, and reclaiming the revolution on this important anniversary.

The dramatic story of the Bolsheviks' struggle for political survival during the first year of Soviet power