S. A. Smith is a historian of modern Russia and China. He is the author of many books and articles on the Russian and Chinese revolutions, including Red Petrograd and Revolution and the People in Russia and China, and is editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism.
This concise, accessible introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole-on different classes, ethnic groups, the army...[SEE MORE]