A People's History of the Russian Revolution

Resumen del libro

The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In A People's History of the Russian Revolution, Neil Faulkner sets out to debunk the myths. In this fast-paced introduction to the tumultuous events, the Russian people are the heroes.

Faulkner shows how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies, mobilised for militant action, destroyed a regime of landlords, profiteers and warmongers. He rejects caricatures of Lenin and the Bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators, 'democratic-centralists' or the progenitors of Stalinist dictatorship. He argues that the Russian Revolution was an explosion of democracy and creativity - and that it was crushed by bloody counter-revolution and replaced with a monstrous form of bureaucratic state-capitalism.

Laced with first-hand testimony, this history seeks to rescue the democratic essence of the revolution from its detractors and deniers, offering a perfect primer for the modern reader.

Biografía del autor

Profesor en el King's College de Cambridge y arqueólogo es, además, miembro del Socialist Workers Party. Editor de la revista Military Times y colaborador de la revista History Today. Ha publicado varios artículos y libros, muchos de ellos dedicados al pasado romano de las islas británicas. Se define así mismo como un "marxista, socialista revolucionario y activista anti-capitalista".