2002, ISBN: 9780674009073

Harvard University Press, 2002 8vo (24 cm), 384 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Offering a fundamental reinterpretation of the emergence of the Soviet state, Peter Holqui… More...

Harvard University Press, 2002 8vo (24 cm), 384 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Offering a fundamental reinterpretation of the emergence of the Soviet state, Peter Holquist situates the Bolshevik Revolution within the continuum of mobilization and violence that began with World War I and extended through Russia's civil war. In so doing, Holquist provides a new genealogy for Bolshevik political practices, one that places them clearly among Russian and European wartime measures. From this perspective, the Russian Revolution was no radical rupture with the past, but rather the fulcrum point in a continent-wide era of crisis and violence that began in 1914. While Tsarist and Revolutionary governments implemented policies for total mobilization common to other warring powers, they did so in a supercharged and concentrated form. Holquist highlights how the distinctive contours of Russian political life set its experience in these years apart from other wartime societies. In pursuit of revolution, statesmen carried over crisis-created measures into political life and then incorporated them into the postwar political structure. Focusing on three particular policies--state management of food; the employment of official violence for political ends; and state surveillance--Holquist demonstrates the interplay of state policy and local implementation, and its impact on the lives of ordinary citizens. Making War, Forging Revolution casts a new light on Russia's revolution and boldly inserts it into the larger story of the Great War and twentieth-century European history." (from the publisher's description), Harvard University Press, 2002, 5.5<

2002, ISBN: 067400907X

[EAN: 9780674009073], Gebraucht, [PU: Harvard University Press], Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and page… More...

[EAN: 9780674009073], Gebraucht, [PU: Harvard University Press], Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library., Books<

2002, ISBN: 9780674009073

hardcover, Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book., Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Harvard University Press]