Volume 41, Number 13 · July 14, 1994
Reds
By Robert Conquest
Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime
by Richard Pipes
Knopf, 587 pp., $35.00
Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918-1922
by Vladimir N. Brovkin
Princeton University Press, 455 pp., $55.00
Richard Pipes's new volume takes its place beside its predecessor The Russian Revolution as a masterly account, which brings together the intricate story of the rise and consolidation of the Bolshevik regime, ending with the death of Lenin in 1924. Vladimir Brovkin, who earlier gave us an excellent study of the Mensheviks,[1] has now admirably covered the role of the workers and the peasants, and of the political parties, in the Civil War. In many ways reinforcing and in other ways complementing Pipes, his book is a remarkable contribution to the history of the Revolution in its own right.
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