Russia's Revolutionary Experience, 1905-1917: Two Essays

Leopold H. Haimson

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March, 2005
Cloth, 304 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13282-4
$50.00 / £34.50

"Outstanding... highly recommended." — N. M. Brooks, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries

"An elegant and stimulating book that all concerned with the period will wish to read." — Christopher Read, Slavic ReviewUniversity of Warwick, United Kingdom

"With the consummate analytical skill so familiar to his many students, Leopold Haimson here sheds fascinating light on two seemingly familiar subjects. Using new materials from the Menshevik archives, he explores the tangled helix of political thinking that linked and separated Lenin and Martov, penetrating their mindsets and showing how much Lenin's drive for power in October related to the alternative possibilities posed by his rival. In a detailed examination of the 1912 Lena episode, he again dissects his sources to reveal the mentalities behind the callous ineptitude of leading government figures and the humanistic foundations of worker resistance. Quintessential Haimson!" — William G. Rosenberg, University of Michigan

Related Subjects

• European History

About the Author

Leopold Haimson is professor emeritus in the Department of History at Columbia University. He is the author of The Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries and the classic Russian Marxists and the Origins of Bolshevism, among other works. He lives in New York City.

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