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Defenders of the motherland [electronic resource] : the Tsarist elite in revolutionary Russia / Matthew Rendle.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xii, 274 p.) : maps.ISBN: 9780191717154 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Elite (Social sciences) -- Soviet Union -- History | Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Social aspects
| Russia -- History -- February Revolution, 1917Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199236251DDC classification: 947.084 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Matthew Rendle studies how the most powerful social groups in tsarist Russia reacted to the challenges of 1917. He argues that the alienation of elites from the tsar and their support for the Provisional Government secured the success of the revolution but the threat they posed laid the foundations of the repressive Soviet regime.
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Matthew Rendle studies how the most powerful social groups in tsarist Russia reacted to the challenges of 1917. He argues that the alienation of elites from the tsar and their support for the Provisional Government secured the success of the revolution but the threat they posed laid the foundations of the repressive Soviet regime.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.