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Looking for a book recommendation re: Russian Revolution
Posted on 11/3/16 at 7:18 am
Posted on 11/3/16 at 7:18 am
Anybody read any good books on the Russian Revolution they can recommend?
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Posted on 11/3/16 at 7:22 am to RandySavage
Try the History of the Russian Revolution and the revolution betrayed by Trotsky. Since he was a principal it has some unique insights. He wrote them in exile and took a bunch of shots at Stalin, which prompted an ice pick to the skull.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 7:23 am to RandySavage
I have been looking for the same thing. Haven't had a chance to read it, but "The Russian Revolution" by Richard Pipes looks very good.
There is so much of the history that is shrouded in misinformation and myth that it may be impossible to ever really know exactly what happened.
There is so much of the history that is shrouded in misinformation and myth that it may be impossible to ever really know exactly what happened.
This post was edited on 11/3/16 at 7:38 am
Posted on 11/3/16 at 7:27 am to RandySavage
Ten days that shook the World or Six Weeks in Russia will get you started.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 7:28 am to jackmanusc
Try "War, what is it good for?" by Tolstoy.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 7:29 am to RandySavage
Robert Massey's books are quite good.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 7:29 am to RandySavage
When I was in the 8th grade, I read Chief of the Cossacks. That's all I got.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 8:13 am to ElderTiger
If you are interested in other aspects of the USSR,
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a great book. It's not about the revolution, but the force labor camps that existed in the USSR after the revolution. The author was a prisoner in one of the gulags. The Russians were ruthless.
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a great book. It's not about the revolution, but the force labor camps that existed in the USSR after the revolution. The author was a prisoner in one of the gulags. The Russians were ruthless.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 8:33 am to RandySavage
Animal Farm
Posted on 11/3/16 at 8:48 am to RandySavage
You may want to listen to Dan Carlin's Blueprint for Armageddon part VI. It starts with the German decision to send Lenin to Russia in the hope that he would cause a revolution and knock the Russians out of the war. His whole series on WWI is terrific BTW.
LINK
LINK
Posted on 11/3/16 at 8:49 am to Loubacca
quote:
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a great book.
I bought this about a year ago but haven't got around to it yet. I try to stay somewhat chronological when reading about certain places/eras so I'd like to see more about how it all started first.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 9:25 am to AU_RX
quote:
Try "War, what is it good for?" by Tolstoy.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 9:37 am to RandySavage
quote:Which one?
on the Russian Revolution
Posted on 11/3/16 at 9:55 am to LSUTigersVCURams
Yep. Pipes has a great book. Read it back in high school the early 2000s.
Always thought he should have gone by Dick Pipes. Well, that was my high school humor.
Seriously, though. This is the book you want.
Always thought he should have gone by Dick Pipes. Well, that was my high school humor.
Seriously, though. This is the book you want.
This post was edited on 11/3/16 at 9:57 am
Posted on 11/3/16 at 10:09 am to RandySavage
Richard Pipes is generally considered the preeminent historian of this era.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 10:13 am to Loubacca
quote:Roger
Gulag Archipelago
The revolution is directly tied to WWI, so August 1914 as well by Solzhenitsyn.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 10:14 am to RandySavage
What about Documentaries for us dumb folks who cant read good?
Posted on 11/3/16 at 10:23 am to GumboDave
Here's a brief pictorial overview of Soviet & post-Soviet Russian leaders:
This post was edited on 11/3/16 at 10:23 am
Posted on 11/3/16 at 11:29 am to RandySavage
Try:
1917: Red Banners, White Mantle / Warren H. Carroll.
Published Front Royal, Va. : Christendom Publications, ©1981.
Format 166 p. ; 21 cm.
LCCN 82-137190
ISBN 0-931888-05-0 (pbk.)
1917: Red Banners, White Mantle / Warren H. Carroll.
Published Front Royal, Va. : Christendom Publications, ©1981.
Format 166 p. ; 21 cm.
LCCN 82-137190
ISBN 0-931888-05-0 (pbk.)
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