A Brief History of 1917 A Brief History of 1917 Russia's Year of Revolution Roy Bainton Robinson2005Paperback336pp Illustrated196x128mm 9781841199504 Product Code: 508157 Details Lenin, Trotsky and Karensky were the ideological driving force behind the Russian Revolution, but were they, as one of Roy Bainton's sources describes... DetailsBackDetailsLenin, Trotsky and Karensky were the ideological driving force behind the Russian Revolution, but were they, as one of Roy Bainton's sources describes them, 'totally evil men'? Or was Lenin, as a Red Army veteran insisted, 'a good man who ran the country on a worker's wages'? Bainton's brief history approaches the revolution from the standpoint of the ordinary mass of Russians, describing both the bravado of the revolutionaries and a people punished repeatedly by circumstance.See MoreSee Less publ £10.99now £4.99 Qty Qty123 Add to Basket CategoriesHistory20th Century HistoryTags20th century historyEuropean history