Russia under Tsarism and Communism 1881-1953 Second Edition

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Russia under Tsarism and Communism 1881-1953

this title is a comprehensive core text on Russian history from 1881 to the death of Stalin. It is a second edition of the bestselling Communist Russia under Lenin and Stalin. This second edition is extended to cover the Tsarist pre-revolutionary period.

Major themes include

- the nature of Tsarist rule in Russia and the causes and consequences of the 1905 revolution;

- the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution in 1917;

- the nature, the achievements and failures of Lenin's and Stalin's Communist regimes;

- the ongoing historiographical debate about this period and the current reinterpretations of it.

Other improvements for this second edition include more streamlined coverage of Stalin's foreign policy.