Rex A. Wade

This collection presents the major recent writings on the Russian Revolution and its context. It brings together key texts to illustrate new interpretive approaches and covers the central topics and themes. Together, the chapters in this volume form a coherent representation of both the events and the theories and debates that relates to them.

Rex Wade presents a new account of one of the pivotal events of modern history, combining his own long study of the revolution with the best of contemporary scholarship. Within an overall narrative that provides a clear description of the 1917 revolution, he introduces several new approaches on its political history and the complexity of the October Revolution. Wade clears away many of the myths and misconceptions that have clouded studies of the period. He also gives due space to the social history of the revolution and incorporates people and places too often left out of the story, including women, national minority peoples, and peasantry front soldiers, enabling a more complete history to emerge. Now appearing in a second edition, this highly readable book has been thoroughly revised and expanded. It will prove invaluable reading to anyone interested in Russian history.

Edición original de Cambridge University Press «Este libro es, sin ningún género de duda, el mejor tratamiento de la Revolución de 1917 en un solo volumen jamás publicado [...] una síntesis asombro

Edición original de Cambridge University Press«Este libro es, sin ningún género de duda, el mejor tratamiento de la Revolución de 1917 en un solo volumen jamás publicado [...] una síntesis asombrosam