S A Smith

Broschiertes Buch

Russia in Revolution

An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928

Beschreibung

A panoramic account of the Russian empire from the last years of the nineteenth century, through revolution and civil war, to the brutal collectivization and crash industrialization under Stalin in the late 1920s.

Autor

S. A. Smith is a historian of modern Russia and China, who was a graduate student at both Moscow State University and at Peking University. He is the author of many books and articles on the Russian and Chinese revolutions, including Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917-18 (CUP, 1983) and Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History (CUP, 2008), and is editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism (OUP, 2014). He taught for many years at the University of Essex, where he is an honorary professor, and then at the European University Institute in Florence, before being elected to a senior research fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2012.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 134mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780198734833
• ISBN-10: 0198734832
• Artikelnr.: 50907792