Franklin Library: HARRISON SALISBURY: RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: 1905-1917

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Harrison Salisbury's "Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917," Illustrated by Mitchell Hooks, one of the FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series with a 'facsimile signature,' published in 1977. Bound in burgundy leather, the book has matching French moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Harrison Evans Salisbury, who lived from 1908 – 1993, was an American journalist and the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II. He spent nearly 20 years with UNITED PRESS (UP), much of it overseas, and was UP's foreign editor during the last two years of World War II. Salisbury constantly battled Soviet censorship and won the PULITZER PRIZE for International Reporting in 1955. "BLACK NIGHT, WHITE SNOW" is a valuable retrospective on the three Russian Revolutions, the one in 1905 and the two in 1917. The book's structure is generated by the juxtaposition of two lives, that of Czar Nicholas II and Vladimir Ulyanov, AKA "Lenin." The destruction of the Czars which brought about the reign of revolutions from 1905–1917 in Russia looms as the crucial political event of the twentieth century. In little more than a decade the Romanov dynasty was toppled, and its time-honored institutions repudiated. How did it happen? How could NICHOLAS and ALEXANDRA, the nobility, middle class anarchists—even LENIN himself—not foresee the catastrophic changes that were shaking the empire? Why could nothing be done? And why were the efforts so ineffectual? "Black Night, White Snow" captures the rich drama of this whole period. On November 6 and 7, 1917, leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader VLADIMIR LENIN launched a nearly bloodless coup d’état against the provisional government. Lenin became the virtual dictator of the first Marxist state in the world. His government made peace with Germany, nationalized industry and distributed land, but beginning in 1918 had to fight a devastating civil war against anti-Bolshevik White Army forces. In 1920, the anti-Bolsheviks were defeated, and in 1922 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was established. 763 pages, including an Index. I offer Combined shipping.

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