Two Years of Wandering: A Menshevik Leader in Lenin's Russia - Couverture souple

Il'Ich Dan, Fedor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910448729 ISBN 13 : 9781910448724

Editeur : Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

Fedor Dan had been an active revolutionary and Marxist since the 1890s, and one of the Soviet leaders in 1917, but by 1920, when this memoir begins, he and his party were leading a precarious, semi-legal existence. From then until his expulsion from Soviet Russia in 1922, Dan's life as a mobilised state employee and political oppositionist took him from Moscow to the Urals, the Russo-Polish front, Soviet congresses in Moscow and Petrograd - and to prison.

Now available for the first time in English, Francis King's translation of Dan's memoir sheds new light on life in the 'war communist' siege economy in the capitals and the provinces, on the mentalities of the supporters and critics of Lenin's government, and on the political logic driving the development of the Soviet one-party system and its criminalisation of any dissent. The volume is essential reading for both academics and general readers interested in the crucial political and social shifts that took place in Soviet Russia during this period of great change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Francis King teaches Soviet and modern Russian history at the University of East Anglia. He is also a translator, editor of Socialist History and modern reviews editor of European History Quarterly.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910448729
• ISBN 13: 9781910448724
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 140
• Éditeur: King Francis
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible