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Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914-1918

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Invaded by foreign armies and threatened by the terrors of civil strife, Russia's leaders mobilized more than fifteen million fighting men between 1914 and 1918 only to find that at least a quarter of them had no boots, rifles, or ammunition. With field casualties soaring into the millions, scourges of starvation and disease joined the enemy's guns to double and treble Russia's human losses. Never in modern history had war so devastated a nation.
Recounting the tale of the Russians' passage through the shattering experience of the First World War and the revolutions of 1917, W. Bruce Lincoln offers a profoundly intelligent and detailed chronology of the watershed events and devastating hardships that led to the Bolshevik Revolution. Mining an abundance of resources, including letters, diaries, memoirs, government reports, military dispatches, and testimony given to the revolution's first Supreme Commission of Inquiry, he allows the reader to step directly into army headquarters, state council chambers, boudoirs, trenches, and underground revolutionary hideaways of the men and women who shaped the events of this crucial era.

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W. Bruce Lincoln is Distinguished Research Professor of Russian History at Northern Illinois University and the author of ten books including In War's Dark Shadow, Nicholas I, and The Romanovs.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (June 9, 1994)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 656 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195089545
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195089547
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.9 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
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Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2017
Part of a very readable series that tells the sad story of Russia's disastrous revolutionary history. Read the whole series and learn why they behave the way they do.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2012
Lincoln divides his book into parts, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, each of which comprises some chapters, followed by a brief epilogue. His treatments of the Russian-Central Powers fight in the Great War (1914-1915) and of the Russian Revolution (1917-1918) are excellent. The weakness of the book is his concentration on the Revolution in the final two parts while largely not carrying along the tread of the War. He makes this switch from War to Revolution in Part 1916.

As in his first volume, "In War's Dark Shadow," I am again irritated by his interludes
(Chapter X for example in Part 1916) in which he follows his heart in writing about Petrograd's cultured set, most of whom (Gippius for example) come across simply as bohemians who are getting more of the author's devotion than they deserve, our chatterers if you will. He should have dropped these characters in favor of telling of more about Lenin and Trotskii prior to their emergence full grown with spears in Parts 1917-1918. Also he could have explained the invention of the commissar. Presumably this office was invented to be filled by party members to insure that party orders were obeyed by Russian gentry (officer class for example) and that there was no back sliding into counter revolution. They seem to be sort of secular grand inquisitors. It is fascinating that Nikita Khrushchev was a commissar to Soviet senior generals during the battle of Stalingrad in 1942-43. The commissars seem to have been largely unpopular with Soviet officers, and Stalin eventually discontinued them at the front. Thus the commissar is a very interesting animal, and the deletion of Gippius material in favor of telling us more about the commissar's birth would have been welcomed. Finally not to nitpick I was puzzled why Lenin could hold up in somebody's house in Petrograd apparently without risk of arrest.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2017
A magisterial work -- highly recommended for anyone with an interest in Russia during World War One.
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2010
As Lincoln's title suggests, this book is neither a history of Russia's war nor of the Revolutions of 1917, but rather a history of Russia during those years. Rather than providing a background of the Revolutions that covers the growth of radicalism and Marxism within Russia and amongst the usual exiles, Lincoln narrates a political history of the War years that concentrates on the major players at the time and their frustrating dealings with the Tsar, Tsarina, and, of course, indirectly Rasputin. Thus, he presents the Revolutions in their immediate contexts--rather than the usual long view--which presents them as anything but inevitable. Much like H.A. Turner's "Thirty Days to Power," that presents Hitler's rise in January 1933 as the product of very immediate conjuncture--rather than the inevitable product of Germany's long history--Lincoln's book emphasizes all the missed opportunities to avoid the calamity that came in 1917. This book isn't for beginners, but offers much new to readers already familiar with the usual story of the Revolutions of 1917. It also demonstrates the great explanatory power of narrative history that is missing in the topical treatments common today. Highly recommended.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2009
It is a shame this book is no longer in print. Lincoln has proven himself to be an excellent narrative historian although he does provide analyses of the events he describes. This particular book is an outstanding overview of the political, military and social history of Russia from its entrance into World War I through the Communist revolution. The military catastrophes, political ineptitudes of the tsarist regime, the initial popular revolution and Lenin's road to power are discussed and described in an absorbing manner. While the book may seem dated it is still relevant with respect to current events and Lincoln himself is a reputable academic scholar on Russian history.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2011
Lincoln is one of the best narrative history writers I've come across. He sources his information well, provides lucid insights and his prose is easy to follow. I recommend the other two books in this trilogy: 'Red Victory' (which follows this one, detailing the Bolshevik success over the Whites and foreign interventionists) and 'In War's Dark Shadow' covering the political/cultural issues in Russia from the turn of the century until the Great War.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2018
An excellent book and I would recommend it to anyone who wanted some understanding of this important history.