The revolutions of 1917 in Russia

6 noviembre, 2018 at 17:28

Revolutions are extraordinary events that have a huge impact on the histories of nations and the world. Theda Skocpol, the author of a now classic study in comparative history on the three «major» revolutions in France, Russia and China, has defined them as «rapid, basic transformations of a society’s state and class structures (…) accompanied and in part carried through by class-based revolts from below».

 

Capitulo de introducción de «Centenary of the Russian Revolution (1917-2017)», editado por Andreu Mayayo i Artal, Alberto Pellegrini and Antoni Segura i Mas, accesible aquí.