People's History Of The Russian Revolution

ISBN: 9780745399041 出版年：2017 页码：289 Neil Faulkner Pluto Press

The russian revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In a people's history of the russian revolution, neil faulkner sets out to debunk the myths. In this fast-paced introduction to the tumultuous events, the russian people are the heroes. Faulkner shows how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies, mobilised for militant action, destroyed a regime of landlords, profiteers and warmongers. He rejects caricatures of lenin and the bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators, 'democratic-centralists' or the progenitors of stalinist dictatorship. He argues that the russian revolution was an explosion of democracy and creativity - and that it was crushed by bloody counter-revolution and replaced with a monstrous form of bureaucratic state-capitalism. Laced with first-hand testimony, this history seeks to rescue the democratic essence of the revolution from its detractors and deniers, offering a perfect primer for the modern reader.