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"Beginning in the 1920s thousands of Chinese revolutionaries set out for Soviet Russia. Once there, they studied Russian language and experienced Soviet communism, but many also fell in love, got married, or had children. In this they were similar to other people from all over the world who were enchanted by the Russian Revolution and lured to Moscow by it. The Chinese who traveled to live and study in Moscow in a steady stream over the course of decades were a key human interface between the two revolutions, and their stories show the emotional investment backing ideological, economic, and political change. After the Revolution, the Chinese went home, fought a war, and then, in the 1950s, carried out a revolution that was and still is the Soviet Union's most geopolitically significant legacy. They also sent their children to study in Moscow and passed on their affinities to millions of Chinese, who read Russia's novels, watched its movies, and learned its songs. If the Chinese eventually helped to lead a revolution that resembled Russia's in remarkable ways, it was not only because class struggle intensified in China, or because Bolsheviks arrived in China to ensure that it did. It was also because as young people, they had been captivated by the potential of the Russian Revolution to help them to become new people and to create a new China. Elizabeth McGuire presents an alternate narrative on the Sino-Soviet split of the 1960s by looking back to before the split to show how these two giant nations got together. And she does so on a very personal level by examining biographies of the people who experienced Sino-Soviet affairs most intimately: Chinese revolutionaries whose emotional worlds were profoundly affected by connections to Russia's people and culture"--

Chinese --- Revolutionaries --- Communists --- History --- Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921) --- China --- Soviet Union --- Relations --- Influence. --- Foreign relations

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This updated new edition of Sheila Fitzpatrick's classic short history of the Russian Revolution takes into account the centenary of the Revolution in 2017 and what it means today. In this work, the author incorporates data from archives that were previously inaccessible not only to Western but also to Soviet historians, as well as drawing on important recent Russian publications.

February Revolution (1917) --- Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921) --- 1917-1936 --- Russia --- Soviet Union --- History --- Politics and government --- Russie --- URSS

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Autobiography/Memoirs/Letters (History). --- History - 20th century. --- Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921). --- 1917-1921. --- Russia (Federation) --- Siberia (Russia) --- Soviet Union --- Soviet Union. --- History

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"In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All Russia, abdicated the throne and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of that revolution, eminent historian Robert Service examines Nicholas's life--in fresh and unprecedented detail--from the weeks before his momentous abdication to his death, with his family, in Ekaterinburg in July 1918. The story has been told many times, but Service's deep understanding of the period and his forensic examination of the Tsar's diaries and other newly discovered recorded conversations, as well as manifold testimonies of the official inquiry, shed remarkable new light on his troubled reign, and also reveals the kind of Russia that Nicholas wanted to emerge from the Great War. The Last of the Tsars is a masterful study of a man who was almost entirely out of his depth, perhaps even willfully so. It is also a compelling account of the social, economic, and political ferment in Russia that followed the February Revolution, the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, and the beginnings of Lenin's Soviet socialist republic."--Jacket. A detailed account of Tsar Nicholas II's last eighteenth months draws on the Tsar's diaries, recorded conversations, and official inquiry testimonies to create a portrait of a man entirely out of his depth.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty. --- HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. --- Kings and rulers. --- Nicholas --- Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921). --- 1894-1921. --- Russia --- Russia. --- Soviet Union --- Soviet Union. --- History --- Kings and rulers

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History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics. --- Information resources (General). --- Revolution, 1917-1921. --- Soviet regime, 1918-1991. --- Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921). --- 1917-1921. --- Soviet Union --- Soviet Union. --- History --- Sources