Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Death

One hundred years ago events in Russia took the world by storm. This book accompanies a major exhibition that will reexamine the Russian Revolution in light of recent research, focusing on the experiences of ordinary Russians living through extraordinary times. Later that year a new political force, the socialist Bolshevik Party, seized power under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin. The Revolution was not a single event but a complex process of dramatic change. A bloody civil war and period of extraordinary hardship for Russians finally led to the establishment of the Soviet Union. In February 1917, in the middle of World War I and following months of protest and political unrest, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated. Here, leading experts on Russian history reveal the Revolution as a utopian project that had traumatic consequences for people across Russia and beyond.

Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia is Lead Curator of East European Collections at the British Library.

About the AuthorEkaterina Rogatchevskaia is Lead Curator of East European Collections at the British Library.