Faithful to the original History of the Civil War in the USSR published in 1937 in by Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow—this newly formatted edition is a fine addition to the shelves of anyone interested in world history, the history of the Soviet Union, communism or all of the above. The present volume—Part One—covers the period from the eve of the Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution in 1914 to the start of the Bolshevik Revolution in October of 1917. Important events covered in this volume range from the start of WWI in July of 1914 and the resulting disintegration of the Tsarist Army to the February Revolution and implementation of Dual Power, Lenin’s Return to Russia from Exile and his April Thesis, the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the formation of the Red Guard, the Sixth Congress of the Bolshevik Party, the Kornilov Revolt starting the Civil War to economic collapse and the beginning of the Great Proletarian Revolution in 1917.
Author
Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary aesthetic; his works include The Life of Klim Samgin (1927-1936), an unfinished cycle of novels. This Soviet author founded the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. People also nominated him five times for the Nobel Prize in literature. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929, he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union, he accepted the cultural policies of the time.
