New Book

The February Revolution Petrograd, 1917: The End of the Tsarist Regime and the Birth of Dual Power

28th Mar 2019

The February Revolution Petrograd, 1917: The End of the Tsarist Regime and the Birth of Dual Power

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

• $50 / £43.99 • 9781608460151 • 701 Pages

Historical Materialism, new in paperback catalogue: https://we.tl/t-DNvshoI187

A timely reassessment and detailed history of the epic uprising that toppled the tsarist monarchy and ushered in the next stage of the Russian Revolution.

The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917 is the most comprehensive book on the epic uprising that toppled the tsarist monarchy and ushered in the next stage of the Russian Revolution. Hasegawa presents in detail the intense drama of the nine days of the revolution, including the workers’ strike, soldiers’ revolt, the scrambling of revolutionary party activists to control the revolution, and the liberals’ conspiracy to force Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate. Based on his previous work, published in 1981, the author has revised, enlarged, and reinterpreted the complexity of the February Revolution, resulting in a major and timely reassessment on the occasion of its centennial.

Customers in North America can order the book direct from Haymarket’s website at a 30% discount, with free postage: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1197-the-february-revolution-petrograd-1917

We encourage customers elsewhere to order through independent bookstores where possible, particularly the Alliance of Radical Booksellers in the UK: http://www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk/  

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Ph.D. (1969), University of Washington, is Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of the prize-winning books, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and Japan’s Surrender in the Pacific War (Harvard University Press, 2005),The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo-Japanese Relations (University of California, 1998), andThe February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917 (University of Washington Press, 1981).

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