Year One Of The Russian Revolution

Victor Serge (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

532 Seiten

2015
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-60846-267-4 (ISBN)

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An extraordinary account of the first year of the Russian Revolution, written by its most keen firsthand observer. Serge exposes the heart of the vital first year of the most important working class revolution in history.

Victor Serge (1889-1947) is best known as a novelist with two of his works recently republished by the New York Review of Books and for his Memoirs of a Revolutionary. Originally a participant in the anarchist movement, Serge became a committed bolshevik upon arrival in Russia during 1919 and lent his considerable talents to the cause of spreading the revolution across Europe. An eloquent critic of tyranny no matter its form, Serge was a leading member of the Left Opposition in its struggle against Stalin, a cause which ultimately resulted in his exile from Russia. Peter Sedgwick (19341983) was a lifelong activist and a founding member of the New Left in Britain, and one of the first translators of Serge's work into English. In addition to his journalism and political writings, he is the author of a book, Psycho-Politics.

Preface by Paul Foot / v
Introduction by Peter Sedgwick /1
Forward by Victor Serge / 18

1 From serfdom to proletarian revolution / 23
2 The insurrection of 25 October 1917
3 The urban middle class against the proletariat / 79
4 The first flames of the civil war:
The Constituent Assembly / 107
5 Brest– Litovsk / 142
6 The truce and the great retrenchment / 177
7 The famine and the Czechoslovak intervention / 211
8 The July- August crisis / 250
9 The terror and the will to victory / 282
10 The German Revolution / 316
11 War communism / 352

Notes / 377
Editorial postscript
The Allied part in the Czechoslovak intervention / 431
Index / 441

Maps:

1 Western Russia / 250
2 Siberia / 251
3 The Black Sea and the Caspian Sea / 253

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.9.2015
Übersetzer	Peter Sedgwick
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 230 mm
Gewicht	802 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-60846-267-6 / 1608462676
ISBN-13	978-1-60846-267-4 / 9781608462674
Zustand	Neuware