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Three Whys of the Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes (1997, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
067977646X
ISBN-13
9780679776468
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038803204

Product Key Features

Book Title
Three Whys of the Russian Revolution
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Topic
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Military / World War I
Genre
Political Science, History
Author
Richard Pipes
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
3 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
96-046857
Reviews
"The author has distilled his arguments concerning several key questions: Why did tsarism fall? Why did the Bolsheviks triumph? Why did Stalin succeed Lenin? The book, based on lectures given at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, has a nicely colloquial feel, clarity, and vigor. At the heart of the answers to the first two questions is Pipes's assertion that, far from being the product of large, impersonal forces of history, the fall of the tsar and the rise to power of the Bolsheviks (in, he reminds us, a coup d' tat largely unsupported by the Russian people) were the result of the old regime's clear failings and Lenin's genius for manipulation and appetite for total power. Stalin succeeded Lenin, Pipes asserts, because Lenin had so successfully suppressed all elements of democracy that no alternatives were possible.... A concise and eminently straightforward summary of current research on the rise and nature of Communism in Russia." -- Kirkus
Dewey Edition
21
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Dewey Decimal
947.084/1
Synopsis
America's foremost authority on Russian communism--the author of the definitive studies The Russian Revolution and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime-- now addresses the enigmas of that country's 70-year enthrallment with communism. Succinct, lucidly argued, and lively in its detail, this book offers a brilliant summation of the life's work of "one of America's great historians" ( Washington Post Book World ). "The author has distilled his arguments concerning several key questions: Why did tsarism fall? Why did the Bolsheviks triumph? Why did Stalin succeed Lenin? The book, based on lectures given at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, has a nicely colloquial feel, clarity, and vigor. At the heart of the answers to the first two questions is Pipes's assertion that, far from being the product of large, impersonal forces of history, the fall of the tsar and the rise to power of the Bolsheviks (in, he reminds us, a coup d' tat largely unsupported by the Russian people) were the result of the old regime's clear failings and Lenin's genius for manipulation and appetite for total power. Stalin succeeded Lenin, Pipes asserts, because Lenin had so successfully suppressed all elements of democracy that no alternatives were possible.... A concise and eminently straightforward summary of current research on the rise and nature of Communism in Russia." -- Kirkus
LC Classification Number
DK265.P4744 1997
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