Books on Russian Revolution

by Sid_1978

Hi Friends,

Please can you kindly suggest a book on Russian Revolution written in an interesting way, looks at multiple perspectives, and gives a nice overview of the events.

Thanks a lot.

Siddharth

Subs-man

Have you checked out our section on "Russia" in our Book list? Some of the books listed that you might enjoy include:

  • Richard Pipes's The Russian Revolution (1991)

  • Sheila Fitzpatrick's The Russian Revolution (1st ed: 1982, 2nd ed: 1994, 3rd ed: 2007/8)

  • Orlando Figes's A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 (1996)

Other books that aren't listed on our book list but that you might enjoy include:

  • Oskar Anweiler's The Soviets: The Russian Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers Councils, 1905-1921 (1975)

  • Rex A. Wade's The Russian Revolution, 1917 (New Approaches to European History) (2005)

  • Edward Action's Rethinking the Russian Revolution (1990)

  • Stephen. A. Smith's The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (2002)

  • Alexander Rabinowitch's Bolsheviks Come to Power, The : The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (2009)

  • Orlando Figes's Peasant Russia, Civil War: 1917-1921: The Volga Countryside in Revolution, 1917-21 (2001)

  • Orlando Figes's Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction (2014)

  • James D. White's The Russian Revolution 1917 - 1921. : A Short History (1994)

  • Ewan Mawdsley's The Russian Civil War (2005)

  • Peter Waldron's The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917 (1997)

  • Anthony D'Agostino's The Russian Revolution, 1917-1945 (2011)

Quite a few of the books that I've cited came from this answer from /u/International_KB on How the Mensheviks lost to the Bolsheviks, which you might find interesting :)

Sid_1978

Thank you so much. That's very useful. I did know of some books like Gives, Pipes, Kirkpatrick, but found a lot of negative reviews about them on Amazon and hence wanted to recheck.