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A History of Twentieth-Century Russia

January 8, 2019

Segundo libro que leo de Robert Service, académico e investigador de Oxford, uno de los más destacados especialistas en la materia. Hablar de historia rusa en el siglo XX es hablar de la caída del zarismo, de las revoluciones de febrero y de octubre, de la primera guerra mundial, de la guerra civil, del triunfo bolchevique, de Lenin, de Trotski y de Stalin, de la creación de la URSS, del terror estalinista, de la segunda guerra mundial, de la invasión nazi y la victoria soviética, de la guerra fría, de la perestroika, de la caída del comunismo soviético, de la formación de la federación rusa, entre otras temáticas. El trabajo de Robert Service ha sido contundente. Fue uno de los primeros investigadores en acceder a los archivos desclasificados de la era soviética, a partir de 1991. El libro tiene un ritmo trepidante. No dan ganas de detenerse, a pesar de sus más de 500 páginas. Cada capítulo se desarrolla con lujo de detalles y comentarios sagaces y convincentes. Los hechos hablan por sí solos, pero Robert Service es capaz de

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When Was the Russian Revolution?

In 1917, two revolutions swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and setting into motion political and social changes that would lead to the eventual formation of the Soviet Union.

However, while the two revolutionary events took place within a few short months of 1917, social unrest in Russia had been brewing for many years prior to the events of that year.

In the early 1900s, Russia was one of the most impoverished countries in Europe with an enormous peasantry and a growing minority of poor industrial workers. Much of Western Europe viewed Russia as an undeveloped, backwards society.

The Russian Empire practiced serfdom—a form of feudalism in which landless peasants were forced to serve the land-owning nobility—well into the nineteenth century. In contrast, the practice had disappeared in most of Western Europe by the end of the Middle Ages.

In 1861, the Russian Empire finally abolished serfdom. The emancipation of serfs would influence the events leading up to the Russian Revolution by giving peasants more freedom to org

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The Birth of the Soviet Union and the Death of the Russian Revolution

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One hundred years ago, at the end of December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was born. A little more than five years after the end of the Russian Revolution that brought the Tsarist Empire to an end, a multi-ethnic nation-state that promised a socialist future and the protection of national identity was established out of the chaos of civil war. Vladimir Lenin, the creator and first leader of the Soviet Union, had denounced Tsarist Russia for holding Russians and non-Russians in a “prison of nations.” His new Soviet Union would unite the exploited masses of the old Tsarist lands in a country that was “national in form, socialist in content.” The economic and political systems were to follow a socialist line of development in the pursuit of leading the people to communism, but the culture and traditions of the individual Soviet republics would be allowed to continue. The Russification of the Tsarist era was ov