Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution

The Editor of the Encyclopedia, Harold Shukman, is University Lecturer in Modern Russian History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Antony's College. His books include Lenin and the Russian Revolution and Lenin's Path to Power. He has edited and translated the memoirs of Andrei Gromyko, novels by Anatoly Rybakov, as well as plays by Isaac Babel and Evgeny Shvarts, biographies of Stalin and Lenin by Dmitri Volkogonov, and most recently he edited a collection of articles on Stalin's generals. He is the General Editor of Longman's multi-volume History of Russia.

• Preface. Acknowledgements.List of Contibutors.Editorial Notes.Part I: .Introduction.Historical Interpretations of the Revolution.The Revolutionary Movement.The Road To Revolution.1917 and After: Political Developments.Post-October Institutions.Spreading the Revolution.The Cultural Impact of the Revolution.Part II: .Bibliographies A-Z.Index.

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