{"product_id":"2026200013387-secondhand-the-russian-revolution-1918-1921-from-the-civil-war-to-the-consolidation-of-power","title":"The Russian Revolution: 1918-1921: From The Civil War To The Consolidation Of Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew events have reshaped the modern world as violently and irrevocably as the Bolshevik seizure of power, and William Henry Chamberlin's The Russian Revolution: 1918–1921 stands as the definitive chronicle of that catastrophic transformation. This second volume takes up the story where the October coup concluded, plunging the reader into the savage years of the Russian Civil War — a period of fratricidal conflict, famine, terror, and iron-willed consolidation, as Lenin's Bolsheviks crushed the White Armies, foreign interventionists, and internal dissidents to forge the Soviet state from the ruins of the Romanov empire.\n\nChamberlin, a seasoned journalist who lived in the Soviet Union throughout the 1920s and 1930s, brings a rare combination of on-the-ground authority and scholarly rigour to his narrative, drawing on archival sources, eyewitness accounts, and his own direct observations to produce a work of enduring historical weight. His prose is measured and unflinching, presenting the brutal mechanics of revolutionary consolidation without sentimentality or ideological apology. First published in 1935, this landmark two-volume study remains an essential text for any serious student of Russian history — and its unflinching portrait of how revolutionary idealism curdles into authoritarian control carries a warning that resonates far beyond its era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203357515995,"sku":"2026200013387-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/eeed7cb6-4e3c-4a90-b394-74b6aeed239a.png?v=1788147958","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013387-secondhand-the-russian-revolution-1918-1921-from-the-civil-war-to-the-consolidation-of-power","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}