The Russian Revolution

This volume is both a rigorous history and critique of Communism. Dr. Pipes thesis, largely a consensus view among historians now, is that the revolution was not a revolution at all, but a coup d’état. The biggest surprise for me was the detailed story of how the Bolsheviks crushed all the other soc......more

Pipes wrote an exhaustively detailed and quite gripping account of the Russian Revolution, from the time of the first Duma government through 1918. Written in the late 1980s, before later scholars had increased access to the Russian archives after the fall of the USSR, its thoroughness is remarkable......more

Ez valóban egy kvázi-tökéletes elemzés Oroszország Szovjetunióvá válásának viharos évtizedeiről. Bár Pipes érzékelhetően méla undorral rajzolja meg szereplőit, de végig tárgy- és tényszerű marad. Legnagyobb erénye mindazonáltal az, hogy érthető és világos mondatokba önti azt az elképesztő zűrzavart,......more

Pipes and Figes are the best authors if you are interested in Russian History.......more

Academic historians’ reviews of this work are almost uniformly negative and reading it, it’s easy to see why. In his crusade to make the Bolsheviks (or rather, just Lenin, who is the only one he’s actually interested in giving motives or a personality) come as some of the blackest of villains, Pipes......more