The Russian Revolution: The Essential Readings (Blackwell Essential Readings in History)

The Russian Revolution: The Essential Readings (Blackwell Essential Readings in History)

by Martin Miller (Editor), Martin Miller (Editor), Martin Miller (Editor)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
Edition: 1
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 06 Nov 2000

ISBN 10: 0631216391
ISBN 13: 9780631216391

Media Reviews
Professor Miller has succeeded in putting together an admirable collection of important articles on the Russian revolutionary experience, and has linked them together with an excellent set of introductions. Reginald E. Zelnik, Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley Miller has collected some of the best writing from a brilliant field. Times Higher Education Supplement This collection of essays should prove a useful guide for students: the editor has provided a sound introduction to the book and gives a good introduction to the book and gives a good introduction to each peice, setting them each in their historiographical context. The book enables us to achieve a clear understanding of the state of the debate that surrounds 1917 as we enter the twenty--first century Peter Waldron, University of Sunderland [It] will be of great use to all those teaching the history of Revolutionary Russia...Miller has brough together some of the best journal articals on 1917. Geoffrey Swain, University of the West of England -- Revoltuionary Russia, Vol. 15/June 2002
Author Bio
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).