For its admirers, the Russian Revolution is a milestone in human progress; for its critics, it is a catastrophe of monstrous proportions. Edward Acton's stimulating study combines an introduction to the momentous events of 1917 with an analysis of this controversy.
Edward Acton is Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, UK, having previously been the Dean of the School of History and the Chair of Modern European History before that. He is the author of Russia: The Tsarist and Soviet Legacy (1995), co-author of the two-volume work, The Soviet Union: A Documentary History (2007), and co-editor of the Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921 (2001).
This work is intended principally to allow the student and
nonspecialist to acquire a reasonably sophisticated grasp of the
historiography of the Russian revolution. In this, it succeeds
strongly, largely due to a clarity of presentation grounded in the
author's strong interpretational grasp. 'Rethinking the Russian
Revolution' will likely become standard fare in university
classrooms.
*Slavic Review*
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