October Revolution

by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev

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Published 1979 by Constable in London .
Written in

Subjects:

• Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Statement	Roy A. Medvedev ; translated by George Saunders ; foreword by Harrison E. Salisbury.
The Physical Object
Pagination	xix, 240 p., (12) p.ages of plates :
Number of Pages	240
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL19382135M

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  Presenting the Russian Revolution as both a landmark political event and as a breathtaking story, Miéville, author of London’s Overthrow and Between Equal Rights, along with fiction that has. of the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks late in October Reed had traveled to Petrograd, the capital of the Russian Empire, in September that year to report on the progress of the revolution that had erupted in February and already toppled the authoritarian tsarist regime, leaving the country’s political system in a state of uncertainty.

About Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution. Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution is a collection of literary responses to one of the most cataclysmic events in modern world history, which exposes the immense conflictedness and doubt, conviction and hope, pessimism and optimism which political events provoked among contemporary writers – .   Now a WSJ Bestseller! This highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling title The Phoenix Project takes another look at Parts Unlimited from the perspective of Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project. Best known in this country for his book on the Stalin period, Let History Judge, Medvedev has developed a reputation as the foremost dissident historian at work in the USSR today. If the obstacles for westerners trying to do research in Russia are merely difficult, they are mind-boggling for a critical Soviet citizen; and the consequences can be seen in Medvedev's work, .

October Revolution Tom Lamarr, Author University Press of Colorado $ (p the book loses steam. The ironic tone with which LaMarr portrays the past also limits the book's engagement with.   This event paved the way for massive protests which later resulted in the October Revolution. Photo: Getty Images This book shows both how the October Revolution inspired working classes globally and how the communist movement shaped the anti-colonial struggle in the Third : Nilanjana Paul. The Russian Revolution of began in St. Petersburg on Jan. 22 (Jan. 9, O.S.) when troops fired on a defenseless crowd of workers, who, led by a priest, were marching to the Winter Palace to petition Czar Nicholas II. This "bloody Sunday" was followed in succeeding months by a series of strikes, riots, assassinations, naval mutinies, and.