Russian Rebels 1600-1800. - Hardcover

Avrich, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805234586 ISBN 13: 9780805234589

Publisher: New York Schocken Books, 1972

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: New York Schocken Books
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0805234586
• ISBN 13: 9780805234589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1