Russian Rebels, 1600-1800: N836 (Norton Library (Paperback)) - Softcover

Paul, Avrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393008363 ISBN 13: 9780393008364

Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1976

Synopsis

The aim of this book is to unravel the tangled story of the four revolts, to examine their nature, course, and outcome, and to analyze their ultimate historical significance. Who were the rebels? What were their motives, social origins, and modes of behavior? What did they want and what did they achieve? Such are the questions this work will try to answer. Comparisons between the revolts will be made throughout the text, and especially in the concluding section of each chapter, while a final chapter will evaluate the overall significance of the revolts and their impact on the subsequent history of Russia. In particular, an effort will be made to determine the extent to which they foreshadowed the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, which so profoundly affected the course of contemporary history.

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From the Back Cover:

This is one of the few books in a Western language devoted to the social history of the dispossessed and disaffected masses in Russia before the nineteenth century...An intelligent rendering of the social history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0393008363
• ISBN 13: 9780393008364
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324