Hi, comrades.
Some time ago I finished “The Empire Must Die”, by Zygar, an interesting book about the history of the early 20th century Russian Empire leading to the Russian Revolution, that covers the period until the October Revolution.
Although very unambiguously anti-bolshevist, the book provides a rather good recount of the historical events that led to the Russian Revolution, and the most important people within the revolution (sadly with an emphasis towards liberals like the Cadets, or the Socialist Revolutionaries who were more utopian than scientific socialists).
Now I’m interesting on reading about the history, or possibly the evolution of the institutions and the form of government, from 1917 to the death of Lenin. Is there any book you gorgeous people can recommend me about that time period?
Thanks a bunch!
This book covers the whole period from 1900 to World War II but it talks in detail about the civil war and start of the NEP.
Are you one of the prolewiki editors? I’m interested to fix up some of the formatting/OCR errors from this book, but not really interested to apply for editorship. I’m doing it for myself so I can pass it through a text to speech program, but I could share my edits.
You can ask for a library account on the wiki so you don’t have to fill out all the questions for full editorship.
Oh nice! I’ll go about that thanks.
You have a library account now so you can edit that page and any other library pages that need to be imported or have OCR errors.
Wow, this looks like an insanely good resource. Thank you, comrade!
There are also books in the same series for earlier Russian history. The first volume is from prehistory up to 1700 and the second is from 1700 to 1900 and covers most of the Russian Empire. Both are on ProleWiki although it also has links to the original scan if you don’t want to read the OCRed text.
Have you read Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed yet? It isn’t quite what you are looking for but covers the revolution itself from a first hand account
How have I never heard of that? That sounds wonderful! Thank you!
