S. A. Smith - The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

Written with verve, this book is a triumph of compression: it will immediately establish itself as the best short introduction to the subject.

Simon Dixon, University of Leeds

Written by one of the very best historians of early 20th-century Russia, Steve Smiths Russian Revolution is now the best short overview of the Russian experience from the world war to the end of the 1920s, an intelligent and interpretively fair introduction to the social and political history of these complex and important years.

Mark Steinberg, University of Illinois

VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in 25 languages worldwide.

The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology.

Very Short Introductions available now:

ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas

THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair

ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia

ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn

ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes

AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick

BARTHES Jonathan Culler

THE BIBLE John Riches

BUDDHA Michael Carrithers

BUDDHISM Damien Keown

CLASSICS Mary Beard and John Henderson

CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard

CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Simon Critchley

COSMOLOGY Peter Coles

DARWIN Jonathan Howard

DESCARTES Tom Sorell

DRUGS Leslie Iversen

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Paul Langford

THE EUROPEAN UNION John Pinder

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION William Doyle

FREUD Anthony Storr

GALILEO Stillman Drake

GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh

HEGEL Peter Singer

HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood

HINDUISM Kim Knott

HISTORY John H. Arnold

HOBBES Richard Tuck

HUME A. J. Ayer

INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton

INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary

ISLAM Malise Ruthven

JUDAISM Norman Solomon

JUNG Anthony Stevens

KANT Roger Scruton

KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner

THE KORAN Michael Cook

LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler

LOGIC Graham Priest

MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner

MARX Peter Singer

MEDIEVAL BRITAIN John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths

MUSIC Nicholas Cook

NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner

NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew

PAUL E. P. Sanders

PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig

POLITICS Kenneth Minogue

PSYCHOLOGY Gillian Butler and Freda McManus

ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway

ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler

RUSSELL A. C. Grayling

RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION S. A. Smith

SCHOPENHAUER Christopher Janaway

SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY John Monaghan and Peter Just

SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce

SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor

STUART BRITAIN John Morrill

THEOLOGY David F. Ford

THE TUDORS John Guy

TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan

WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling

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AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker and Richard Rathbone

ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw

ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne

ART HISTORY Dana Arnold

ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin

THE BRAIN Michael OShea

BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright

CAPITALISM James Fulcher

CHAOS Leonard Smith

CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson

CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead

CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy

CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE Robert Tavernor

CLONING Arlene Klotzko

THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon

CONTEMPORARY ART Julian Stallabrass

THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman

CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper and Sean Murphy

DADA AND SURREALISM David Hopkins

DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick

DESIGN John Heskett

DREAMING J. Allan Hobson

THE EARTH Martin Redfern

ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta

THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball

EMPIRE Stephen Howe

EVOLUTION Brian and Deborah Charlesworth

FASCISM Kevin Passmore

FILM Mark Jancovich

THE FIRST WORLD WAR Michael Howard

FREE WILL Thomas Pink

FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven

HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson

HIROSHIMA B. R. Tomlinson

IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Paul Wilkinson

LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews

MANDELA Tom Lodge

MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers

MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope

THE MIND Martin Davies

MODERN IRELAND Senia Paeta

MOLECULES Philip Ball

NORTHERN IRELAND Marc Mulholland

PERCEPTION Richard Gregory

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Samir Okasha

PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards

PLATO Julia Annas

POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young

POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler

POSTSTRUCTURALISM Catherine Belsey

PREHISTORY Chris Gosden

QUANTUM THEORY John Polkinghorne

THE RAJ Denis Judd

THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton

RENAISSANCE ART Geraldine Johnson

SCHIZOPHRENIA Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone

THE SECOND WORLD WAR Joanna Bourke

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR Helen Graham

SPINOZA Roger Scruton

TERRORISM Charles Townshend

TRAGEDY Adrian Poole

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Martin Conway

WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman

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