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The Russian Revolution: The Essential Readings

ISBN: 978-0-631-21638-4

January 2001

Wiley-Blackwell

322 pages

Description
This indispensable volume comprises the work of nine of the most prominent scholars of the Russian Revolution, with introductions by the editor that help students contextualize and understand each piece.
About the Author
Martin Miller is Professor of History and of Slavic Languages and Literature at Duke University and is the author of a number of books including Kropotkin (1976), The Russian Revolutionary Emigres, 1825-1870 (1986) and most recently, Freud and the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union (1997).
Features
  • A well-balanced collection of key articles on the Russian Revolution commonly used in courses.
  • Helpful introductions provide the context and framework for understanding the articles.
  • The first student-friendly collection to trace the development of historical writing on the Russian Revolution over the last half century.
  • Includes discussion of Anglo-American as well as Russian scholarship from a post-Soviet perspective.