The Origins of the Russian Revolution, 1861-1917 (Lancaster Pamphlets)

Alan Wood provides a concise introduction to the Russian Revolution and its origins dating back to the emancipation of the Russian peasant serfs in 1861. The third edition of this successful pamphlet brings the historiography up to date to include the multitude of research in the last ten years that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening up of the state archives. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Title......Page 5 Copyright......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Foreword......Page 8 Preface to the second edition......Page 9 Preface to the third edition......Page 11 Notes and acknowledgements......Page 13 Chronological table of events......Page 14 1 Introduction......Page 19 The imperial regime: contrasts and contradictions......Page 21 The revolutionary tradition......Page 25 Emancipation and administrative reform, 1861–81......Page 30 Revolutionary Populism, 1861–81......Page 34 Retrenchment and industrialization, 1881–1905......Page 40 Origins of Russian Marxism......Page 45 1905......Page 49 ‘Constitutional’ politics, 1906–16......Page 52 Russia at war: the domestic front......Page 57 February and the formation of ‘dual power’......Page 63 From the April Theses to the ‘July days’......Page 67 The revolution from below......Page 71 The road to October......Page 75 7 Interpretations and conclusions......Page 81 Documents......Page 87 More extensive works on the revolutionary period......Page 88 The Duma Period......Page 89 1917: ‘Dual Power’ and the ‘revolution from below’......Page 90 Interpretations and anthologies......Page 91 Biographical notes......Page 95 Index......Page 106

Alan Wood provides a concise introduction to the Russian Revolution and its origins dating back to the emancipation of the Russian peasant serfs in 1861. The third edition of this successful pamphlet brings the historiography up to date to include the multitude of research in the last ten years that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening up of the archives.