With erudition lightly worn, Harvard historian Pipes, in this massive, wonderfully vivid, gripping chronicle, stresses the role of liberals both in the Russian revolution of 1905, for which the Communists later claimed credit, and in the upheavals of 1917. He attributes the failure of the February 1917 revolution to Alexander Kerensky's rash actions, his doctrinaire vision of democracy and his dissolution of the police and the provincial bureaucracy, which plunged the nation into anarchy. He argues persuasively that the Bolsheviks' October 1917 putsch was not a true revolution, but a classic coup d'etat. His portrayal of the backward Russian peasantry, scarcely touched by westernization, and of the intelligentsia, "self-appointed spokesman" for over nine-tenths of the populace, lays the groundwork for his discerning analysis of how Lenin built a one-party dictatorship. No other book so brilliantly clarifies the inner dynamics of the Russian Revolution.
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The author, a distinguished Harvard historian, seeks to present a comprehensive view of the Russian Revolution, tracing its roots in the half century before 1917, a period he has already examined in Russia Under the Old Regime ( LJ 3/15/75). His new book, which will also be published in the Soviet Union, should provoke lively debate in the age of glasnost, for it is an unsparing indictment of Bolshevism. Wide ranging in its coverage, based on a profound knowledge of the Russian past and of relevant Western and Soviet scholarship, the work analyzes the direction of Russian development to the Revolution (without whitewashing prerevolutionary figures such as Nicholas II), then goes on to examine the origins and entrenchment of Bolshevism, which Pipes sees as a savagely amoral force. If Soviet power in its first years brought any benefits at all, they are, in this evaluation, insignificant compared to the ghastly price paid for them by the Russian people. This is an important book.
Richard Edgar Pipes (born July 11, 1923) is an American academic who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the history of the Soviet Union. During the Cold War era he headed Team B, a team of analysts organized by the Central Intelligence Agency which analyzed the strategic capacities and goals of the Soviet military and political leadership.
Pipes has written many books on Russian history, including Russia under the Old Regime (1974), The Russian Revolution (1990) and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime (1994), and has been a frequent and prominent interviewee in the press on the matters of Soviet history and foreign affairs. His writings also appear in Commentary, The New York Times and The Times Literary Supplement".
作為一名對近現代轉型期社會抱有濃厚興趣的讀者,我購買此書的動機更多是源於對“人”在曆史劇變中的能動性與局限性的探究。我希望看到那些推動曆史前進的個體,他們的日常掙紮、他們的理想與幻滅,是如何被置於宏大曆史背景之下進行審視的。優秀的傳記式敘事或微觀史學的運用,能讓曆史不再是抽象的概念,而是可感知的生命體驗。我設想,這本書或許會打破傳統上對某些核心人物的臉譜化刻畫,揭示齣他們復雜、矛盾的真實麵貌。如果作者能夠巧妙地將自下而上的個體敘事與自上而下的政治分析熔於一爐,那麼這本書將超越一般的政治史範疇,升華為一部關於人類精神史的傑作。
评分這本厚重的曆史著作,初捧在手,便被其沉甸甸的質感所吸引,仿佛觸摸到瞭那個風雲變幻的年代的真實脈搏。盡管我尚未深入閱讀其每一頁文字,但僅僅是瀏覽目錄和扉頁,便能感受到作者在史料搜集上的殫精竭慮。那些密密麻麻的時間節點、錯綜復雜的人物關係網,無不預示著這是一次對宏大曆史敘事的精妙構建。我期待著它能以一種全新的視角,解構那些被傳統史學定格的經典瞬間,不僅僅是羅列事件,更是挖掘深藏在冰冷史實背後的那些鮮活的人性掙紮與時代洪流的無可抗拒。書中的印刷質量上乘,字體排版疏朗有緻,即便是麵對如此浩繁的篇幅,閱讀體驗想來也不會過於疲勞。我更關注的是,作者如何處理那些充滿爭議的“灰色地帶”,是選擇堅守某種意識形態的定論,還是願意敞開胸襟去呈現曆史的復雜性與多麵性,那將是衡量一部嚴肅曆史作品價值的關鍵所在。
评分這本書的開篇章節摘要,即便隻是匆匆一瞥,也透露齣一種罕見的學術嚴謹性與批判性思維的鋒芒。它似乎並未滿足於講述“發生瞭什麼”,而是著力探討“為什麼會發生”以及“它對後續世界格局産生瞭何種深遠影響”。這種追根溯源的探究精神,正是我對曆史研究的最高要求。我特彆注意到其中關於早期社會思潮醞釀過程的描述,那部分往往是理解後續劇變的鑰匙,許多作品在此處往往一筆帶過,流於錶麵。如果此書能夠深入剖析那些知識分子群體在特定曆史階段的彷徨與抉擇,描摹齣精英階層思想的微妙轉變軌跡,那無疑將是一次巨大的閱讀收獲。我期待它能提供新的理論框架來解釋舊的現象,而不是簡單地重復已經被大眾熟知的曆史版本。
评分拿到這本書的瞬間,我立刻被其封麵設計所吸引——那種兼具古典厚重感與現代極簡風格的完美平衡,透露齣一種對嚴肅議題的敬畏。坦白說,我對這類宏大敘事型的曆史書籍總抱持著一種既期待又畏懼的心態。期待的是能從中汲取到關於人類社會結構演變的關鍵洞察,畏懼的是擔心其中充斥著大量枯燥的政治口號和難以消化的理論闡述。然而,從包裝和裝幀的用心程度上,我感受到瞭齣版方對這部作品的信心,這暗示著內容或許比我預想的要更具可讀性。我非常好奇作者是如何駕馭如此龐大的信息量,並將之轉化為流暢且富有感染力的敘述。我設想,優秀的史學作品應該像偵探小說一樣引人入勝,每一個轉摺都蘊含著無可辯駁的邏輯推導,而非僅僅是曆史的流水賬。我準備好瞭迎接一場思想上的深度漫遊。
评分從書本的整體厚度和作者的學術聲譽來看,這顯然是一部旨在成為該領域“標準參考書”的作品。它的價值可能不在於提供一個驚世駭俗的新觀點,而在於其無與倫比的資料整閤能力和清晰的論證結構,為後續研究者建立瞭一個堅實可靠的知識基石。我更看重的是它在方法論上的創新——是否能有效應對信息過載時代的史料辨僞挑戰,是否能構建齣一個邏輯自洽、禁得起多方考證的敘事框架。對於我這種偏好係統性學習的讀者而言,一本結構嚴謹、索引詳盡、注釋規範的作品,其閱讀價值是無可估量的。它不僅僅是供人消遣的讀物,更像是開啓更深層次學術探索的一張詳盡地圖。
評分Richard Pipes. 1990. The Russian Revolution. New York: Vintage Books. Xxiv, 944 pp. $30. 本书是Pipes俄国史三部曲之一,其他两部是Russia under the Old Regime(1974)与Russia under the Bolshevik Regime(1993)。全书计18章,第1至7章叙述1917年二月革命(于西历1...
評分Richard Pipes. 1990. The Russian Revolution. New York: Vintage Books. Xxiv, 944 pp. $30. 本书是Pipes俄国史三部曲之一,其他两部是Russia under the Old Regime(1974)与Russia under the Bolshevik Regime(1993)。全书计18章,第1至7章叙述1917年二月革命(于西历1...
評分Richard Pipes. 1990. The Russian Revolution. New York: Vintage Books. Xxiv, 944 pp. $30. 本书是Pipes俄国史三部曲之一,其他两部是Russia under the Old Regime(1974)与Russia under the Bolshevik Regime(1993)。全书计18章,第1至7章叙述1917年二月革命(于西历1...
評分Richard Pipes. 1990. The Russian Revolution. New York: Vintage Books. Xxiv, 944 pp. $30. 本书是Pipes俄国史三部曲之一,其他两部是Russia under the Old Regime(1974)与Russia under the Bolshevik Regime(1993)。全书计18章,第1至7章叙述1917年二月革命(于西历1...
評分Richard Pipes. 1990. The Russian Revolution. New York: Vintage Books. Xxiv, 944 pp. $30. 本书是Pipes俄国史三部曲之一,其他两部是Russia under the Old Regime(1974)与Russia under the Bolshevik Regime(1993)。全书计18章,第1至7章叙述1917年二月革命(于西历1...
900多頁,迄今為止讀的最厚一本英文書...敘事流暢,最精華的理論部分:1.對二月革命前俄國農民、官僚和知識分子三個階層的分析,其中分田製部分也適用中國。2.對列寜思想和性格的分析,指齣剋勞塞維茨對他的影響3.對蘇俄外交思維的總結,這部分秒殺瀋誌華的研究4.對戰時共産主義的闡述。
评分revisionist
评分900多頁,迄今為止讀的最厚一本英文書...敘事流暢,最精華的理論部分:1.對二月革命前俄國農民、官僚和知識分子三個階層的分析,其中分田製部分也適用中國。2.對列寜思想和性格的分析,指齣剋勞塞維茨對他的影響3.對蘇俄外交思維的總結,這部分秒殺瀋誌華的研究4.對戰時共産主義的闡述。
评分revisionist
评分900多頁,迄今為止讀的最厚一本英文書...敘事流暢,最精華的理論部分:1.對二月革命前俄國農民、官僚和知識分子三個階層的分析,其中分田製部分也適用中國。2.對列寜思想和性格的分析,指齣剋勞塞維茨對他的影響3.對蘇俄外交思維的總結,這部分秒殺瀋誌華的研究4.對戰時共産主義的闡述。
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