The Russian Revolution 1905-1921

This book provides the first fully comprehensive bibliography of English-language literature on what was arguably the most important historical event of the 20th century. It brings together for the first time the multitude of monographs articles and dissertations on various aspects of the Russian Revolution that have been published from 1905 to mid-1994. While the bibliography conceives the Revolution as the period of transition from tsarist Russia to Soviet Russia a process that occured between 1905 and 1921 it seeks not only to list works central to that process but to list all works relevant to that period of Russian history.The bibliography contains 24 thematic sections covering all subjects from politics and society to education and the arts. Thus there are categories devoted not only to the tsarist establishment and the Red Army but to science and technology during the revolutionary years. Most of the thematic sections have subsections which seek to divide the history of the Russian Revolution into its component parts in a manner that will be familiar to specialists and accessible to students. There are indexes of authors and subjects as well as a detailed list of contents all designed to facilitate quick and easy use of the bibliography.