The Bolsheviks in Russian Society
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The Revolution and the Civil Wars
Edited by Vladimir N. Brovkin
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Authors discuss such previously neglected subjects as government policies toward women and toward religious institutions, the protests of workers and peasants, and the anti-Bolshevik movements and parties. In particular, they investigate the actions of other political parties and White leaders, the peasant rebellions and workers' strikes, Bolshevik operations against the church, attitudes toward peasant and working-class women, and new data on Lenin (the last in a chapter by Richard Pipes). Describing not one civil war but several social, political, and military confrontations going on simultaneously, they portray a Russia in turmoil and an outcome that was by no means inevitable.
"This book will usher in a new generation of studies of the revolution and early Soviet state by scholars operating in a post-Soviet world. It provides new information that significantly enriches our knowledge of the subject."—Dominic Lieven
"Some of the evidence put forward is based on research in archives in Russia only recently available to scholars. Discussions of Bolshevik culture and of Bolshevik policy toward women, the church, and the peasantry should interest any student of this turbulent period."—Choice
Publication Date: May 29, 1997
