Why Are Only a Few Countries Required To Be Multicultural

[ChuckF]

Originally Posted by Caligulette

I am not as approving of Figes, but will not discourage the reading- I would recommend a couple of other books and together you can get a better pro/con idea: Ten Days That Shook the World, by Reed; The History of the Russian Revolution, by Trotsky (which is not as biased as you might think, really); and - going back a little further, history-wise, Road to Revolution, by Yarmolinsky (which I have, if you cannot find) which goes into the pre-pre-Revolutionary situation (as in, the hundred years prior to the Rev.).

Bleh, Yarmolinsky. Boooooring - radicalism isn't my research interest. Reed is hawt though, as is Trotsky. I like Figes because he strikes a nice balance between proximal causes of the revolution and the extended crisis of the autocracy. (You'll notice that, I did not recommend Richard Pipes; I was afraid you'd reach through the internets and tear off my balls). I'm also a Bertram Wolfe fan.

[Caligulette]

Pipes is for poop! Also Thatcher and Swain. Just yahoos playing with pens.

I have not read Wolfe.