Excerpt - page 27: " ... modernization; and that basic choice explains a great deal about the course of the Russianrevolution after Lenin and his party took power in 1917. The Marxists ... "
Excerpt - page 162: "cultural continuity argument is central to Richard Pipes's influential account of the RussianRevolution. It rests on the idea that tsarism was a patrimonial regime in which the tsar's absolute ... "
Excerpt - page 4: "HISTORY OF THE RUSSIANREVOLUTION geographically, but also socially and historically, between Europe and Asia. She was marked off from the European West, but also from the Asiatic ... "
Excerpt - page 4: "helped reinforce these ideas in 4 Lenin and the RussianRevolution Reactionary This term is used to describe those who dislike change and try to resist"