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The Russian Revolution : 1917-1932 / Sheila Fitzpatrick.
By: Fitzpatrick, Sheila
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BookSeries: OPUS book (Oxford University Press).Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1982, (1987 printing)Description: vi, 181 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0192891480.Subject(s): Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921DDC classification: 947.084
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 947.084 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00062935 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Now in a new edition, this provocative, highly readable work presents a fascinating look at events that culminated in the Russian Revolution. Focusing on the Revolution in its widest sense, Sheila Fitzpatrick covers not only the events of 1917 and what preceded them, but the social transformations brought about by the Bolsheviks.
Bibliography: p. 171-175. - Includes index.
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Sheila Fitzpatrick is an Australian historian, born in 1941 in Melbourne Australia. She earned her BA from the University of Melbourne and received her PhD from St Antony's College, Oxford University. She is the a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, and Emerita Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. She is the author of numerous books, articles, and book reviews. Her first book was The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet organization of education and the arts under Lunacharsky, 1917-1921 (1970). Her recent work includes My Father's Daughter (2010), A Spy in the Archives (2013), and On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics. Princeton University Press (2015) for which she was a joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2016, Nonfiction.(Bowker Author Biography)