- Paperback: 420 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press; New edition edition (1 Sep 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 019822169X
- ISBN-13: 978-0198221692
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.7 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,953,171 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Based upon research from various Soviet archives, this work reconstructs the revolutionary experience of the peasantry in the crucial Volga region, situated immediately behind the military fronts between the Red and the Whites. The book begins with a detailed description of the revolution in the villages. The destruction of the old agrarian state left the peasantry to reform the entire social life of the countryside through its own autonomous organs, according to traditional peasant notions of social justice. The peasantry's relations with the Reds and the Whites are discussed in depth. The greater ability of the Bolsheviks to mobilize the peasantry is explained in terms of political and social developments at the village level during the Civil War. The Civil War, as the last chapters illustrate, left a deep scar on the peasant economy and peasant-state relations, which influenced the entire development of the Soviet regime.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A very necessary book if you want to know the facts and figures for this tumultuous period. As usual, immaculately researched and written, by the great expert, Professor Orlando Figes, whose books are always full of remarkable insight into the subject.
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A detailed look at the Peasants
4 Dec 2001
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Detailed and focussed on the Volga countryside of Russia, 1917-.
If Trotsky and Lenin suceeded in mounting a succesful revolution, why did they succeed in overcoming all opposition and securing the Soviet State?
Through a detailed analysis of the tensions and pressures that ensue. A little narrow in focus for the first-time reader, it would be difficult to get hold of the fdetails firmly. The general reader in depth should try instead People's Tragedy by the same author. This retains the same readabilityy, but you need to be able to place in context some of the developments in the village and their correspondence with events in the Civil War to get all you can out of it.
Something most British BA students of history will want by them when writing essays to give unreproachable quotable stuff, and MA students in the area will want to have opinions upon.
If Trotsky and Lenin suceeded in mounting a succesful revolution, why did they succeed in overcoming all opposition and securing the Soviet State?
Through a detailed analysis of the tensions and pressures that ensue. A little narrow in focus for the first-time reader, it would be difficult to get hold of the fdetails firmly. The general reader in depth should try instead People's Tragedy by the same author. This retains the same readabilityy, but you need to be able to place in context some of the developments in the village and their correspondence with events in the Civil War to get all you can out of it.
Something most British BA students of history will want by them when writing essays to give unreproachable quotable stuff, and MA students in the area will want to have opinions upon.
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