Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924

Name: Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924
Author: Robert Service
ISBN: 9781529065855

by Robert Service

ISBN: 9781529065855

Published: 2024-10-31

History

Robert Service, celebrated historian of twentieth and twenty-first century Russia, returns with an enthralling revisionist history of the Russian Revolution. For Robert 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--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 World War I to Lenin's death in 1924. In Blood on the Snow, he reveals that the seeds of the revolution were sown by the Tsar's decision to join the western allies in the war against Germany in 1914. He shows with brutal clarity how those events played out, eventually leading to the establishment of...

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