Richard Pipes - Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime

Acclaim forRichard Pipess

RUSSIA UNDER THE BOLSHEVIK REGIME

Profound and rigorous. Offers a penetrating analysis of the making of the Soviet system no review could do full justice to this great work [It is] a passionate book whose outstanding scholarship is rooted in universal values like truth, honor, responsibility and the sacredness of human life.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Timely. The work is enriched in intriguing ways by the authors access to the once-secret archives of the Soviet Union. Los Angeles Times

Remarkable. A heavy indictment of Lenin and his colleagues which Pipes presents with deadly effect. [His] portrait of Lenin shows that his cruelty was more rational than Stalins but equally remorseless. Pipes has performed a notable service in making all these things plain.

Sunday Times (London)

Richard Pipes is one of the most perceptive observers of the Russian scene.

Christian Science Monitor

Destined to replace the standard source on the subject.

New Leader

Inspired. Few other historians have so powerfully chronicled the ferocity of Bolshevik sentiment and Bolshevik practice.

Sunday Telegraph

A brilliant scholar. The chapter on cultural policies is the best short survey of its kind. A monumental political history.

Guardian

Magnificent. It is [the] contemporary background which makes Pipess book so compelling. We owe a debt of gratitude to Richard Pipes for at long last giving us a history of the Russian revolution as it actually was.

Daily Mail

A tremendously distinguished work of revisionist history. Pipes makes even the most complex events comprehensible. Original and often startling. It is rare that a book is both completely revisionist and liable to become the standard text on its subject. This is one.

Daily Telegraph

Also byRichard Pipes

The Formation of the Soviet Union:
Communism and Nationalism, 191723 (1964)

Struve: Liberal on the Left, 18701905 (1970)

Russia under the Old Regime (1974)

Struve: Liberal on the Right, 19051944 (1980)

Survival Is Not Enough (1984)

Russia Observed (1989)

The Russian Revolution (1990)

Communism: The Vanished Specter (1994)

Richard Pipes

RUSSIA UNDER THE BOLSHEVIK REGIME

Richard Pipes is Baird Professor of History at Harvard University. The author of numerous books and essays on Russia, Pipes served as the Director of East European and Soviet Affairs for the National Security Council in 198182, and he has twice received a Guggenheim fellowship. His previous books include The Russian Revolution, Survival Is Not Enough, Russia under the Old Regime, Europe since 1815, and The Formation of the Soviet Union.

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FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, APRIL 1995

Copyright 1994 by Richard Pipes

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1994.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Pipes, Richard.
Russia under the Bolshevik Revolution/Richard Pipes.1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-78861-0
1. Soviet UnionHistoryRevolution, 19171921. 2. Soviet
UnionHistory19171936. 3. Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 18701924.
1. Title.
DK266.5.P45 1993
947.0841dc20 92-42710

The maps in this books were made by Bernhard H. Wagner.

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