- Paperback: 608 pages
- Publisher: Fontana Press; New Ed edition (11 May 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006861512
- ISBN-13: 978-0006861515
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,222,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This analysis of Russian history traces the essential features of Revolutionary Russia back to medieval times when authoritarian rule first became a prerequisite of survival and is intended as a contribution to our understanding of the Soviet Union.
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Tibor Szamuely's book introduced me to a field that I am becoming increasingly interested in: the background and nature of the Russian revolutionary tradition. It is a comprehensive and beautifully written account of the development of revolutionary ideas. This is elaborated on the backdrop of the "State Tradition", as Szamuely calls it, that is, the persistent concept, in Russia, of a strong, autocratic, centralised state, which flavoured the revolutionary movement, and which was eventually to colour Russian Communism as we new it in the 20th century. Szamuely never lets his own family history colour his views (his parents were Hungarian Communists who moved to Moscow), but rather remains objective and at the same time wonderfully sympathetic to his subject. I was only sad that the narration ended so abruptly and did not continue with the same clarity and profundity all the way to the Bolshevik revolution. But it must be taken into consideration that the book was left essentially incomplete before the author's death, and that it is thanks to Robert Conquest and Nina Szamuely that we have the book in its present form.
It may be a platitude, but I have no choice but to be honest and say that this book changed the way I think.
It may be a platitude, but I have no choice but to be honest and say that this book changed the way I think.
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