October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr put it decades ago, these earth-shaking days were a "landmark in the emancipation of mankind from past oppression" or "a crime and a disaster." Some things are clear. After the implosion of the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty as a result of the First World War, Russia was in crisis--one interim government replaced another in the vacuum left by imperial collapse.
In this monumental and sweeping new account, Laura Engelstein delves into the seven years of chaos surrounding 1917--the war, the revolutionary upheaval, and the civil strife it provoked. These were years of breakdown and brutal violence on all sides, punctuated by the decisive turning points of February and October. As Engelstein proves definitively, the struggle for power engaged not only civil society and party leaders, but the broad masses of the population and every corner of the far-reaching empire, well beyond Moscow and Petrograd.
Yet in addition to the bloodshed they unleashed, the revolution and civil war revealed democratic yearnings, even if ideas of what constituted "democracy" differed dramatically. Into that vacuum left by the Romanov collapse rushed long-suppressed hopes and dreams about social justice and equality. But any possible experiment in self-rule was cut short by the October Revolution. Under the banner of true democracy, and against all odds, the Bolshevik triumph resulted in the ruthless repression of all opposition. The Bolsheviks managed to harness the social breakdown caused by the war and institutionalize violence as a method of state-building, creating a new society and a new form of power.
offers a compelling narrative of heroic effort and brutal disappointment, revealing that what happened during these seven years was both a landmark in the emancipation of Russia from past oppression and a world-shattering disaster. As regimes fall and rise, as civil wars erupt, as state violence targets civilian populations, it is a story that remains profoundly and enduringly relevant.

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Engelstein, Laura

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

German Historical Institute London

Oxford University Press USA, New York, NY, 2018

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Place of publication not identified, 2017

New York, USA, New York State, 2018

New York, United States, 2018

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A Century Ago, The Three-hundred-year-old Romanov Dynasty Was Toppled, Replaced First By An Interim Government And Then By The World's First Self-proclaimed Socialist Society. This Was No Narrative Of Ten Earth-shaking Days But One Of Months And Years Of Compounding Strife, A Struggle For Power By Competing Ideologies And Regions And Classes And Political Parties And Ethnicities, All Rushing To Fill The Vacuum Left By The Collapse Of The Tsarist Regime, Brought Down By The First World War, That Massive Exercise In State-driven Violence. At The Center Of It All Is The Unlikely Triumph Of Lenin's Bolsheviks, First In Their Ruthless Seizure Of Power And Then, By Institutionalizing Violence And Terror, Their Eventual Victory Over Equally Brutal But Less Effective Opponents. For Seven Years, Through War, Revolutionary Upheaval, And Civil Strife, One Russia Replaced Another; Old Institutions And Ways Of Life Were Wiped Away Or Adapted To New Purposes. Laura Engelstein's Monumental New History Of The Russian Revolution Brings To Life The Events That Sparked And Then Fueled The Revolution As It Spread Out Across The Vestiges Of An Entire Empire--from St. Petersburg And Moscow Across The Steppes, The Caucuses, And Siberia, To The Pacific Rim. Russia In Flames Is A Vivid Account Of A State In Crisis So Profound And Transformative That It Not Only Shook The World But Irrevocably Altered It--provided By Publisher. In 1913, The Romanov Dynasty Celebrated Its Tercentenary--three Centuries Of Autocratic Rule Over One Of The World's Mightiest And Most Expansive Empires. Four Years Later, The Monarchy Lay In Ruins And A Brutal Struggle Had Begun To Fill The Vacuum Of Power. The Russian Revolution Utterly Re-shaped The Landscape Of The Twentieth Century. To Mark The Centennial Of This Epochal Event, Distinguished Scholar Laura Engelstein Offers A Full History Of Not Just The February And October Revolutions But The Critical Period Surrounding And Giving Rise To Them, Beginning With The Outbreak Of World War One And Following Through Until The End Of The Civil Strife--seven Years Of Violence And Chaos That Finally Left The Bolsheviks In Command Of The Field. With Fresh Eyes And Narrative Verve, Backed By A Lifetime Of Scholarly Work In The Field, Engelstein's Account Offers New Perspectives On The Events That Led To The Fall Of The Old Order And Ultimately The Creation Of The Soviet State, A Way Of Looking At The Institutions And Structures Of Power That Were Simultaneously Crumbling And Being Replaced. In The Process She Provides A Dynamic Sense Of The Play Of Personalities And Agendas That Set Russia On A Course Of Self-destruction And Reinvention, And On A Scale Previously Unimagined. Russia In Flames Will Join The Ranks Of Works By Orlando Figes, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Timothy Snyder, And Richard Pipes: A Major, Defining, Exhaustive, And Exhilarating Account Of War And Revolution As They Were Unfolding, And As One Of History's Greatest Empires Was Dissolving And Reforming Itself Before The Eyes Of The World--provided By Publisher. Author's Note -- Part I: Last Years Of The Old Empire, 1904-1914 -- Part Ii: The Great War : Imperial Self-destruction -- The Great War Begins -- Germans, Jews, Armenians -- Tearing Themselves Apart -- Conflict And Collapse -- Part Iii: 1917 : Contest For Control -- Five Days That Shook The World -- The Provisional Government And The War -- August-september : From Putsch To Coup -- Bolshevik October -- Death Of The Constituent Assembly -- Politics From Below -- Part Iv: Sovereign Claims -- The Peace That Wasn't -- Treason And Terror -- Finland's Civil War -- Baltic Entanglements -- Ukrainian Drama, Act I -- Colonial Repercussions -- Part V: War Within -- The Unquiet Don -- Foreign Bodies -- Trotsky Arms, Siberia Mobilizes -- Kolchak : The Wild East -- Ukraine, Act Ii -- War Against The Cossacks -- Miracle On The Vistula -- War Against The Jews : 1919-1920 -- The Last Page -- War Against The Peasants -- Part Vi: Victory And Retreat -- The Proletariat In The Proletarian Dictatorship -- The Revolution Turns Against Itself -- Conclusion. Laura Engelstein. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr put it decades ago, these earth-shaking days were a'landmark in the emancipation of mankind from past oppression'or'a crime and a disaster.'Some things are clear. After the implosion of the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty as a result of the First World War, Russia was in crisis-one interim government replaced another in the vacuum left by imperial collapse. In this monumental and sweeping new account, Laura Engelstein delves into the seven years of chaos surrounding 1917 --the war, the revolutionary upheaval, and the civil strife it provoked. These were years of breakdown and brutal violence on all sides, punctuated by the decisive turning points of February and October. As Engelstein proves definitively, the struggle for power engaged not only civil society and party leaders, but the broad masses of the population and every corner of the far-reaching empire, well beyond Moscow and Petrograd. Yet in addition to the bloodshed they unleashed, the revolution and civil war revealed democratic yearnings, even if ideas of what constituted'democracy'differed dramatically. Into that vacuum left by the Romanov collapse rushed long-suppressed hopes and dreams about social justice and equality. But any possible experiment in self-rule was cut short by the October Revolution. Under the banner of true democracy, and against all odds, the Bolshevik triumph resulted in the ruthless repression of all opposition. The Bolsheviks managed to harness the social breakdown caused by the war and institutionalize violence as a method of state-building, creating a new society and a new form of power. Russia in Flames offers a compelling narrative of heroic effort and brutal disappointment, revealing that what happened during these seven years was both a landmark in the emancipation of Russia from past oppression and a world-shattering disaster. As regimes fall and rise, as civil wars erupt, as state violence targets civilian populations, it is a story that remains profoundly and enduringly relevant.

Cover
Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War 1914–1921
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
List of Maps
Author’s Note
Introduction
Russia in Flames
Plates
Part I. Last Years of the Old Empire, 1904–1914
Part II. The Great War: Imperial Self-Destruction
1. The Great War Begins
2. Germans, Jews, Armenians
3. Tearing Themselves Apart
4. Conflict and Collapse
Part III. 1917: Contest for Control
1. Five Days That Shook the World
2. The War Continues
3. From Putsch to Coup
4. Bolshevik October
5. Death of the Constituent Assembly
6. Politics from Below
Part IV. Sovereign Claims
1. The Peace That Wasn’t
2. Treason and Terror
3. Finland’s Civil War
4. Baltic Entanglements
5. Ukrainian Drama, Act I
6. Colonial Repercussions
Part V. War Within
1. The Unquiet Don
2. Foreign Bodies
3. Trotsky Arms, Siberia Mobilizes
4. Kolchak—the Wild EastA
5. Ukraine, Act II
6. War Against the Cossacks
7. Miracle on the Vistula
8. War Against the Jews
9. The Last Page
10. War Against the Peasants
Part VI. Victory and Retreat
1. The Proletariat in the Proletarian Dictatorship
2. The Revolution Turns Against Itself
Conclusion
Notes
Front Matter
Part I
Part II: Chapter 1
Part II: Chapter 2
Part II: Chapter 3
Part II: Chapter 4
Part III: Chapter 1
Part III: Chapter 2
Part III: Chapter 3
Part III: Chapter 4
Part III: Chapter 5
Part III: Chapter 6
Part IV: Chapter 1
Part IV: Chapter 2
Part IV: Chapter 3
Part IV: Chapter 4
Part IV: Chapter 5
Part IV: Chapter 6
Part V: Chapter 1
Part V: Chapter 2
Part V: Chapter 3
Part V: Chapter 4
Part V: Chapter 5
Part V: Chapter 6
Part V: Chapter 7
Part V: Chapter 8
Part V: Chapter 9
Part V: Chapter 10
Part VI: Chapter 1
Part VI: Chapter 2
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Bibliographic Essay
Index

Author's Note -- Part I: Last Years of the Old Empire, 1904-1914 -- Part II: The Great War : Imperial Self-Destruction -- The Great War Begins -- Germans, Jews, Armenians -- Tearing Themselves Apart -- Conflict and Collapse -- Part III: 1917 : Contest for Control -- Five Days that Shook the World -- The Provisional Government and the War -- August-September : From Putsch to Coup -- Bolshevik October -- Death of the Constituent Assembly -- Politics from Below -- Part IV: Sovereign Claims -- The Peace that Wasn't -- Treason and Terror -- Finland's Civil War -- Baltic Entanglements -- Ukrainian Drama, Act I -- Colonial Repercussions -- Part V: War Within -- The Unquiet Don -- Foreign Bodies -- Trotsky Arms, Siberia Mobilizes -- Kolchak : the Wild East -- Ukraine, Act II -- War Against the Cossacks -- Miracle on the Vistula -- War Against the Jews : 1919-1920 -- The Last Page -- War Against the Peasants -- Part VI: Victory and Retreat -- The Proletariat in the Proletarian Dictatorship -- The Revolution Turns Against Itself -- Conclusion: Revolution Against Itself

2020-09-27