Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime 1919-1924

Taking up the story of the Russian Revolution from 1919, this final volume of Professor Pipes' trilogy discusses the Bolsheviks' attempt to expand their authority throughout Russia and outside. He focuses on the building of the Communist state at home and also looks beyond the raw struggle for power at the broader issues of cultural and religious policies/. The book ends with the death of Lenin in 1924, by which time the seeds of Stalinism were well sown...