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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction (Pelican Books)

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Figes stresses the religious motive of the Tsar Nicholas I in his bold decision to go to war, arguing that Nicholas was swayed by the ideas of the Pan-Slavs to invade Moldavia and Wallachia and encourage Slav revolts against the Ottomans, despite his earlier adherence to the Legitimist principles of the Holy Alliance. In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian Revolution. Throughout Russia the impact of modernization—of towns and mass communications, the money economy and above all rural schools—gave rise to a generation of younger and more literate peasants who sought to overturn the patriarchal village world. A primer intended for readers unfamiliar with the territory, it sparkles with ideas, vivid storytelling, poignant anecdotes, and pithy phrases .

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The letters are the largest known collection of private correspondence from the Gulag, according to Memorial.Interviewed by the Sunday Telegraph, Figes defended the series against criticism that it was "too Jane Austen" and "too English".

Book review: Revolutionary Russia 1891-1991, by Orlando Figes Book review: Revolutionary Russia 1891-1991, by Orlando Figes

There is no doubt that the peasant immigrants added a combustible element to the urban working class. Just Send Me Word has been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. He is involved in an international summer school for history teachers in Russian universities organised by the European University of St Petersburg. I can't listen to music too often,' he once admitted after a performance of Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata. Its huge army crushed the Polish uprisings of 1830 and 1863, the main nationalist challenge to the Tsar's Imperial rule, while its police hampered the activities of the tiny close-knit circles of radicals and revolutionaries, who were mostly driven underground.The tsarist censors had passed it by mistake, assuming that ‘very few people in Russia' would read the heavy tome of political economy, and ‘even fewer understand it'. He suppressed his emotions to strengthen his resolve and cultivate the ‘hardness' he believed was required by the successful revolutionary: the capacity to spill blood for the revolution's ends. It gave them grounds for their belief that in forsaking the seizure of power—which, as Plekhanov put it, could only lead to a ‘despotism in Communist form'—they could still advance towards socialism. This was enough to convince the public, shocked and concerned by the rumours of starvation, that there was a government conspiracy to conceal the truth. Contrary to expectations, Marx's critique of the capitalist system would lead to revolution earlier in Russia than in any of the Western societies to which it had been addressed.

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There was a strong puritanical streak in Lenin's character which later manifested itself in the political culture of his dictatorship.

Literacy promotes the spread of new ideas and enables the peasant to master new technologies and bureaucratic skills. Anyone who has wandered through Russia’s national museums, leafed through books of Russian art or watched some of Eisenstein’s cinematic masterpieces will know that prominent among the country’s iconography are arresting portraits of its princes and tsars. In June 2023, he said that Russia "needs to be completely defeated" in the Russo-Ukrainian War, "not just for Ukraine's sake, but for Russia's sake". For A-level teachers and students who are keen to stretch their studies, or for students at university, there is a premium site www.

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Revolutionary Russia: 1891–1991, is a short introduction to the subject published as part of the relaunch of Pelican Books in the United Kingdom in 2014. Lenin was particularly influenced by the ‘Jacobinism' of the revolutionary theorist Petr Tkachev (1844–86), who in the 1870s had argued for a seizure of power and the establishment of a dictatorship by a disciplined and highly centralized vanguard on the grounds that a social revolution was impossible to achieve by democratic means: the laws of capitalist development meant that the richer peasants would support the status quo. On this principle—that the land should be in the hands of those who tilled it—the squires did not hold their land rightfully and the hungry peasants were justified in their struggle to take it from them. Contrary to the Soviet myth, in which Lenin appeared as a fully fledged Marxist theorist in his infancy, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution came late to politics. The Europeans is a massively impressive work, as enjoyable as it is knowledgeable, full of insights into the mechanisms of history and in the people who make it.The book tells the story of Lev and Svetlana who met as students in the Physics Faculty of Moscow University in 1935.

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