Description
At the beginning a spontaneous uprising, unplanned, unorganized, the Russian Revolution ended with the seizure of power by one of the smallest of the contending political groups ? the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin. The Russian Revolution presents a series of essays on the leading figures ? including Lenin, Trotsky, and Kerensky ? which explain the unexpected course of events. The authors include such distinguished contemporary scholars as Bertram Wolfe, Adam Ulam, Leonard Schaprio, Walter Laquer, and Joe Carmichael. Accompanying these essays are excerpts from classic works of the period ? Trotsky’s ‘History’; John Reed’s ‘Ten Days that Shook the World’; the eyewitness accounts of Sukhanov and Sir Bruce Lockhart; and Chernyshevsky’s ‘What Is To Be Done?’, a book which influenced two generations of revolutionaries. Heavily illustrated throughout with historic photographs, many never before published.
