{"product_id":"the-russian-revolution-9780192892577","title":"The Russian Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of the twentieth century  Russia was one of the great powers of Europe. But it was a great power that was universally regarded as backward by comparison with Britain  Germany  and France. As Russia moved from under the weight of World War I  Western influences began to settle upon this vast empire  leading the way to the turbulent years of the Russian Revolution. Now in a new edition  this provocative and eminently readable work looks at the many upheavals of this long and often devastating period as successive stages in a single process--the Russian Revolution. Focusing on the Russian Revolution in its widest sense  Fitzpatrick covers not only the events of 1917 and what preceded them  but the nature of the social transformation brought about by the Bolsheviks after they took power. Making use of a huge amount of previously secret information in Soviet archives and unpublished memoirs  this detailed chronology recounts each monumental event from the February and October Revolutions of 1917 and the Civil War of 1918-1920  through the New Economic Policy of 1921 and the 1929 First Five-Year Plan  to Stalins \"revolution from above\" at the end of the 1920s and the Great Purge of the late 1930s. Lucid and concise  this classic study makes comprehendible the complex events of the revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923796787253,"sku":"ByrdShop_0192892576","price":65.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780192892577.jpg?v=1794115132","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-russian-revolution-9780192892577","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}