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the world of the Czars, their insulation from the lives of their subjects and the Imperial Family's tragic journey to death at Ekaterinberg.
- Sales Rank: #1945609 in Books
- Published on: 1958
- Binding: Hardcover
- 301 pages
- Russian Revolution
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A Tale Of Two Stubborn Men
By Bill Slocum
Czar Nicholas II of Russia was warned in 1917 by the British ambassador about losing the confidence of his people. He answered: "Do you mean that I am to regain the confidence of my people, Mr. Ambassador, or that they are to regain my confidence?"
Later that year, when Vladimir Lenin arrived in Petrograd after a ten-year exile, he wasted no time expunging would-be allies en route to a pure Bolshevik government. "Our tactics, absolute distrust, no support of new government...no rapprochement with other parties," he wrote.
Alan Moorehead's "The Russian Revolution" is a highly readable fast-moving account of the Russian Revolution, from the early liberal democratic stirrings of 1905 to the overthrow of the Czar and months later, of moderate socialist Alexander Kerensky. For Moorehead, the issue boils down to two men, Nicholas and Lenin, one known only by his first name and the other most often just by his last. This approach lends a clear focus to an otherwise labyrinthine subject, even if it lacks for nuance and subtlety.
Published by Time magazine in 1958, the book has Henry Luce-era Time/Life all over it, from the focus on great men as directors of faceless mobs to a strong sense of disapproval for what Lenin brought to his country. In this case, more than most, the approach works OK. Lenin's revolution was a hard thing to admire, a bloody-minded purging of less doctrinaire rebels (who already had done the hard work) to institute a totalitarian, murderous regime. But this great man/evil Communism approach does have a drawback: Moorehead seems somewhat lost when it comes to explaining just how Lenin managed to do what he did, ascribing it more or less to mule-headed stubbornness. But why did his stubbornness work so well, while Nicholas's failed so miserably?
Where Moorehead succeeds, and quite well, is capturing the tumult of Russia in the days before and during World War I. While Lenin and other socialists debated doctrine in Switzerland, Russia groaned under the well-meaning but myopic Nicholas as well as his suspicious, hysterical, and more repressive-minded wife. She was the person that gave power to a sinister monk named Rasputin, who would prove hard to dislodge and even harder to kill.
"He was a supreme example of the truth that the evil men do lives after them," Moorehead writes.
As an older book, "The Russian Revolution" has its drawbacks. It relies on a lot of older information, not necessarily outdated but incomplete. He spends a lot of time on Lenin's German enablers (Berlin saw Lenin with good reason as a solution to fighting a two-front war, and ignored the potential for awakening German socialism), but misses a point that would have made his two-man focus more relevant, that Lenin had a captive Nicholas and his family murdered. Moorehead buys instead the line Lenin peddled at the time, of the mass killing being done by local Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg without higher direction.
But even its flaws make "The Russian Revolution" interesting, even fascinating. It's great for historiographers who want to understand how the West regarded the Soviet Union at the peak of the Cold War. And it tells a gripping if incomplete story of a country that traded one absolute ruler for another with barely a pause for some fractured kind of democracy in-between.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Good book, unfortunately old
By A Customer
I picked this up at an old used book store: its binding glue was giving in, its cover was in tatters, and the design was typical cheesy 1950s. This book is old.
It was commissioned by Life magazine and written in the late 1950s by Alan Moorehead, a skilled novelist/journalist who wrote a number of successful little books like this one on a variety of history-related topics. The main trigger of the book seems to be the recently discovered documents linking the Germans with funding for the Bolsheviks and other revolutionary groups in WWI. While that must have certainly be interesting at the time, its common knowledge now, so the amount of this book that is dedicated to expiating this new information may seem a little unnecessary.
Needless to say, this was written in the height of the Cold War, about the touchiest of subjects. Moorehead says in the Introduction that he has set out to write a completely objective work, and I think he was sincere. There are a few oddities: the author feels drawn to the strange and impossible task, dubiously, of being Rasputin's apologist. He clearly dislikes Lenin, admires Trotsky with a sense of regret, and has strong feelings against the Bolsheviks. However, remarkably, he has a strong respect for Russia's other Socialist parties, especially the Mensheviks, and makes clear that Leninism is a distortion of Marxism, something that most of Russia and nearly all of the Socialist parties were strongly against.
Moorehead is a gifted writer, and he brings the story alive with a novelist's talent. The book, if nothing else, is a great story, written well, and probably a decent introduction to the subject. Unfortunately, one is forced to admit that time has worn this piece out, and there are certainly better and more recent books that outdo it (at least on point of fact).
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
An Insight Into A Tragedy
By James Gallen
"The Russian Revolution" provides the reader with a close look at one of the greatest tragedies of the Twentieth Century. Author Alan Moorehead does an excellent job in telling the story of the Revolution from its Nineteenth Century antecedents through to its conclusion.
The reader becomes familiar with the world of the Czars, their insulation from the lives of their subjects and the Imperial Family's tragic journey to death at Ekaterinberg. We are taught that the Czars saw Russia as their own private business to be run for their benefit, with little or no concern for the welfare of the mass of Russian people.
Czar Nicholas II emerges as a likable, but tragically flawed figure. As much as we respect him as a good family man and wish that he could have managed a peaceful transition to democracy, we cannot escape the conclusion that he was incapable of taking the steps necessary to avoid revolution and thereby save his nation and his family. With the coming of war, Nicholas could not resist the opportunity to lead the army in battle. Ultimately, the army camp became less of an opportunity for leadership than a refuge from the turmoil in Petrograd and Tsarkoye Selo.
Lenin emerges as much more capable than Nicholas but, in a sense, equally as out of touch with the world as was his main protagonist. Although Lenin is seen in history as the leader of the Russian Revolution, the truth is that through much of his career he was a failure who drifted outside the mainstream of the revolutionary movement. During the years of exile, Lenin kept in contact with other exiled would-be revolutionaries, but had little influence on events within Russia. It was only after the initial revolution that Lenin returned to Russia with the assistance of the Germans who expected him to exert his influence to take Russia out of World War I. Lenin is seen as one who truly reaped what others sowed.
One thing which this book does so successfully is to dispel the notion that the events of the Revolution were inevitable. Some events were, actually, almost incredible. Was it inevitable that the Czarevitch Alexei would suffer from hemophilia? How incredible is it that the Czarevitch's illness would enable Rasputin, an uncouth, disgusting, lecherous "Holy Man", to gain such incredible influence over Czarina Alexandra so as to make himself the defacto ruler of Russia? What chance was it that, from among the myriad of revolutionary personalities, Lenin, the brutal late arrival, would emerge as the dictator? What were the chances that Imperial Germany would cooperate in the overthrow of the Czar who, though being the Kaiser's enemy, was also a crowned head as well as his cousin? As I read about opportunities for the German Army or Navy to launch an offensive which would take advantage of revolutionary induced disarray in the Russian forces I find myself almost cheering for the offensive which would take Russia out of the war, but would also restore the Imperial system. At times I almost I forget on which side America would enter the war.
Readers of this book have the advantage over those who lived its events in that we know what came of the Russian Revolution. What turmoil, what tragedies could have been avoided if a few of these incredible events would not have occurred? Would there have been the massive starvation in Russia in the periods between the wars? Could World War II and the twin tyrannies of Communism and Nazism have been avoided? Could Eastern Europe have been spared 40 years of slavery under Communism? We will never know but, through this book we can begin to understand why they all happened.
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