Russia under the Bolshevik Regime is the sequel to Richard Pipes's classic The Russian Revolution, and covers the time from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to the death of Lenin in 1924, when all the institutions and nearly all the practices of future Stalinism were in place. In the first history of the period to make use of the recently opened Russian archives, the autho...(展开全部)

Russia under the Bolshevik Regime is the sequel to Richard Pipes's classic The Russian Revolution, and covers the time from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to the death of Lenin in 1924, when all the institutions and nearly all the practices of future Stalinism were in place. In the first history of the period to make use of the recently opened Russian archives, the autho...(展开全部)

In Harvard historian Pipes's judgment, Lenin, Trotsky and their fellow Bolsheviks were not utopians but fanatics. Seizing power in Russia as the springboard for a global revolution, they deceptively promised every disenchanted group what it wanted to hear, and manipulated the Soviets or workers' councils while consolidating their absolute power through the Party and secret poli...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 理查德·派普斯（Richard Pipes），著名俄国史学者。曾在美国哈佛大学任教，担任哈佛大学俄罗斯研究中心主任，斯坦福研究所高级顾问。他因突出的研究成果获得诸多奖项和荣誉，包括古根海姆研究员、美国艺术与科学学院院士、美国历史协会乔治路易斯比尔奖等。

【著者简介】 理查德·派普斯（Richard Pipes），著名俄国史学者。曾在美国哈佛大学任教，担任哈佛大学俄罗斯研究中心主任，斯坦福研究所高级顾问。他因突出的研究成果获得诸多奖项和荣誉，包括古根海姆研究员、美国艺术与科学学院院士、美国历史协会乔治路易斯比尔奖等。

Harvard Professor of Russian History Richard Pipes traces the evolution of the Russian state from the ninth century to the 1800s. Pipes analyzes the political behavior of the principal social groupingspeasantry, nobility, middle class, and clergyand their failure to stand up to the increasing absolutism of the czar. This is considered by many to be the definitive book about Rus...(展开全部)

Harvard Professor of Russian History Richard Pipes traces the evolution of the Russian state from the ninth century to the 1800s. Pipes analyzes the political behavior of the principal social groupingspeasantry, nobility, middle class, and clergyand their failure to stand up to the increasing absolutism of the czar. This is considered by many to be the definitive book about Rus...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 理查德·派普斯（Richard Pipes），著名俄国史学者。曾在美国哈佛大学任教，担任哈佛大学俄罗斯研究中心主任，斯坦福研究所高级顾问。他因突出的研究成果获得诸多奖项和荣誉，包括古根海姆研究员、美国艺术与科学学院院士、美国历史协会乔治路易斯比尔奖等。

【著者简介】 理查德·派普斯（Richard Pipes），著名俄国史学者。曾在美国哈佛大学任教，担任哈佛大学俄罗斯研究中心主任，斯坦福研究所高级顾问。他因突出的研究成果获得诸多奖项和荣誉，包括古根海姆研究员、美国艺术与科学学院院士、美国历史协会乔治路易斯比尔奖等。

This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of geographical conditions made it extremely difficult to construct an effective regime, and a "patrimonial" state arose in which the country was co...(展开全部)