The Russian Revolution – Alan Moorehead (1958) (1st ed)

S$46.00

The Russian Revolution – Alan Moorehead (1958) (1st ed)

S$46.00

Title: The Russian Revolution

Author: Alan Moorehead

Publisher: Collins with Hamish Hamilton, 1958. First edition.

Condition: Hardcover, with price-clipped dust jacket. Fair. Small closed tears to dust jacket. Annotations to text, in pencil. Inscription to ffep. Binding tight. No foxing. With black-and-white photographs. 320pp., app 8.5″x5.5″.

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About the book (from dust jacket):

Mr, Moorehead has vividly reconstructed the whole course of events and the roles played by the various characters in the gigantic drama. And what a cast he has to handle! Tsar Nicholas II and his Tsarina, Rasputin, a medieval blackguard in an almost medieval court, Trotsky, Kerensky, and Lenin who emerges as the story develops from an obscure and single-minded agitator into the figure who dominates the whole scene. He has also reconstructed the extraordinary atmosphere of Russia in those days – an atmosphere of total confusion, apathy, and tension which suddenly turned into terror. Finally, he shows the reader how a small but determined minority imposed their will on the vast, leaderless majority of Russians because they, and only they, knew what they wanted.