Defenders of the Motherland : the Tsarist elite in revolutionary Russia /
Matthew Rendle studies how the most powerful social groups in tsarist Russia reacted to the challenges of 1917. He argues that the alienation of elites from the tsar and their support for the Provisional Government secured the success of the revolution, but the threat they posed laid the foundations...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Matthew Rendle studies how the most powerful social groups in tsarist Russia reacted to the challenges of 1917. He argues that the alienation of elites from the tsar and their support for the Provisional Government secured the success of the revolution, but the threat they posed laid the foundations of the repressive Soviet regime. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191572067 0191572063 9786612383236 6612383232 |