List of plates; List of maps; Preface; Preface to the second edition; Chronology; 1. The coming of the Revolution; 2. The February Revolution; 3. Political realignment and the new political system; 4. The aspirations of Russian society; 5. The peasants and the purposes of revolution; 6. The nationalities: identity and opportunity; 7. The summer of discontents; 8. 'All power to the Soviets'; 9. The Bolsheviks take power; 10. The Constituent Assembly and the purposes of power; 11. Conclusions; Notes; Further reading; Index.
This book explores the 1917 Russian Revolution from its February Revolution beginning to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in October.
Rex A. Wade is a widely recognised expert on the Russian Revolution. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including The Russian Search for Peace, February-October 1917 (1970) and Red Guards and Works' Militias in the Russian Revolution (1984), as well as many scholarly articles on the revolutionary and civil war eras. He is a long-term active member of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (former President, and recipient of its Senior Scholar Award), among other professional associations and scholarly activities.
Review of first edition: '… students and the interested general
public will choose Wade's book not only for his 'rethinking our
narrative and interpretation of several major features of the
revolution' but also for the enjoyment of engaging with a good
history of one of the seminal events of the last century that is
well told.' Anthony Bidgood, Eras Journal
Review of first edition: 'Read Wade, Rex Wade, his The Russian
Revolution, 1917 ends logically with the dissolution of the
Constituent Assembly in January 1918; it combines traditional
history from above with more recent history from below; it has no
ideological preconceptions; it is new, admirably brief, and it is
good.' Carter Elwood, Revolutionary Russia
Review of first edition: 'Rex Wade has written an excellent short
history of the Russian Revolution.' Graeme Gill, Russian Review
Review of first edition: 'Rex Wade's succinct book is reliable and
judicious … it is exemplary in its clear exposition of the latest
historical literature.' BBC History Magazine
Review of first edition: 'This work is, without a doubt, the best
single-volume treatment of the 1917 revolution ever published in
English … a remarkably readable synthesis of exceptionally diverse
recent scholarship … Rex Wade has done the field a great service
with the publication of The Russian Revolution, 1917, which is
bound to become a standard choice of syllabi in Russian history of
the revolutionary period.' Slavic Review
Review of first edition: 'Wade has written a very reliable largely
political account produced to a very high standard of accuracy of
information and absence of factual and typographical error.'
Europe-Asia Studies
Review of first edition: 'This magisterial account offers an
analytically sharp and comprehensive narrative of the 1917
revolution that synthesizes the tremendous wealth of scholarship of
the last thirty years.' Russian History
Review of first edition: '… it is a thoughtful and balanced work
which logically describes the sequence and outcome of the events of
1917 … as of today it is the book that logically balances the many,
divergent extremes of past interpretations of the Russian
revolution.' Buldakov V. P., Otechestvennaya Istoriya
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