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Title: The Russian Revolution

Subtitle: A Very Short Introduction

Author: S. A. Smith

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Since the fall of Communism there has been much reflection on the significance of the Russian Revolution. The book rejects the currently influential, liberal interpretation of the revolution in favor of one that sees it as rooted in the contradictions of a backward society which sought modernization and enlightenment and ended in political tyranny.

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Members Reviews:

Inaccessible ad a little scary

Would you try another book from S. A. Smith and/or Suzanne Toren?

Yes to the narrator, Toren, NO to S. A. Smith the author

What could S. A. Smith have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Not write a textbook for admirers of Communism.

Which scene was your favorite?

The scene at the end where the author sympathizes with the good intentions of Bolshevik butchers.

What character would you cut from The Russian Revolution?

Lenin, Stalin, the author?

Any additional comments?

It is quite dishearening, knowing what we know today, that the Russion Revolution shattered so many lives and convulsed and twisted a society of tens of millions into an unimaginably wretched state, that somoeone feels no compunction about writing a short history of these fateful events....from the perspective of teh perpetrators of the terror. While you read this trash, you are given little signals along the way....why is there barely any perspective of the disenfranchised, thte starved, families of the murdered?....are the bolsheviks really just responding to outside pressures the best they can?....until at the end when the author's conculsion pulls back the curtain and you find where the author's sympathies lie, with the idealists who were only trying make things better.

Well written and narrated

Being phonetically dyslextic I have studied a lot off material like this with the Open University. I can only say I wish all their material was narrated as well as this. I found it to be very interesting and informative and definitely worth the money

good depth but deadly boring

this is a very well written book however it is read in a monotone which makes an interesting subject dull.

Great Introduction

A very good introduction to this historic event. It covers the essential elements of the revolution, and addresses what lead onto Stalinism.

Clear and neat with no frills

A clean, sharp outline of the main points without a wasted word. If you want the story in a nutshell, you've got the right book.