About this title: Long a favorite among general readers and students, this is perhaps the most distinguished short history yet written about the Russian Revolution. 45 black-and-white photographs.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper, New York
Date Published: 1958
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. 301 p. illus. 22 cm. Includes Illustrations. A closeup look at the Russian Revolution that culminated in the events of 1917-1918, and the people that made it happen. Book is in good condition with slight discoloration to the pages due to aging. $3.99 for shipping and handling. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper, New York
Date Published: 1958
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Nice hard cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to dust jacket, small mark on front of dust jacket, book club edition, stk #2528o8. 301 p. illus. 22 cm. Includes Illustrations. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Perennial Library
Date Published: 1965
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Nice soft cover, lightly read, shelf wear to cover, light creases on spine, aging. 303 p. Includes index. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper, New York
Date Published: 1958
Description: Fair in fair dust jacket. Binding fairly loose and flexible, but intact. Some edge wear/tear to dust jacket. Pages clean, no marks, age-toned some. 301 p. illus. 22 cm. Includes Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1958
ISBN-13:9781125167113ISBN:1125167114
Description: Good. ---Hard Cover. Good+/Good or Better. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall. 301pages. Interior-near-flawless condition w/ a moderate amount of B&W illustrations and light foxing on the text b lock. The red boards and spine have only a small amount of wear and sun-fading along part of the edging. The DJ has light wear/tear, foxing, and sun-fading along part of the edging. -Publish Place: -Size: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 1958
Description: Acceptable. First Edition. -1st Edition Ex-Library--No Jacket. Good 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall 301 pgs. Interior-Light signs of use w/ ex-library referencing. The boards have light signs of aging. -Publish Place: New York-Size: read more
"It must not have been easy for an American historian in the 1950s to publish a politically-neutral work on the Russian Revolution, but Moorehead achieves just that. This was a big seller in its day, a book club book, and it's easy to see why: Moorehead's telling of the revolution reads like good fiction. His pacing is right-on and he knows a good character when he sees one (his treatment of Rasputin is particularly skillful).
I notice, by the way, that a lot of people disagree with my assessment of the book as "politically-neutral". I meant it in the sense that you get no American chauvinism or anti-Communist paranoia from the text. He does, however, characterize Lenin as a nasty fellow. I guess it all depends on whether you think neutrality means you're not allowed to call a spade a spade."
"Good basic information on the Russian Revolution. Covers the years between the late 1880's to about 1919. I had not realized that the Russian Revolution was not originally a communist or socialist revolution. The people were rebelling against Czar Nicholas, the war, lack of food and fuel. The Bolsheviks had little to do with inciting the turmoil; most of the big names were out of the country at the time (Lenin, for example). However the Bolsheviks were very adroit at turning the situation to their advantage, and despite their relative small numbers, managed to take over the entire country within months of the revolt."
"I'm an avid fiction reader, but I tend to read non-fiction with the attitude that it's good for me, but not exactly enjoyable. This book is the absolute exception. The book is well-researched and invaluable in helping to understand the background of the revolution and how that revolution sowed the seeds to what followed. It's also the only history book in which I have ever marked passages simply for the poetics of the writing.
"For the first few days many of the demonstrators did not know where they were going to go or what they were supposed to do: they simply wanted to protest. But then, as more and more men poured into the streets, the crowds took confidence from their own numbers and they found with astonishment and exhilaration how very much they were not alone: not just a reckless few, but a host of comrades in a fighting mood. And so they accepted the leaders who appeared, and they went along, and in the absence of personal enemies they attacked symbols."
Read this book, if for nothing other than the description of Rasputin's assasination. Unbelievable."
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