PDF The philosophy of the Upanishads and ancient Indian metaphysics; as exhibited in a series of articles contributed to the Calcutta Review by Archibald edward gough in History

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AN ORIGINAL READING OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION; EXAMINING IT NOT AS A SINGLE EVENT BUT AS A HUNDRED-YEAR CYCLE OF VIOLENCE IN PURSUIT OF UTOPIAN DREAMSIn this elegant and incisive account; Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian Revolution. While other historians have focused their examinations on the cataclysmic years immediately before and after 1917; Figes shows how the revolution; while it changed in form and character; nevertheless retained the same idealistic goals throughout; from its origins in the famine crisis of 1891 until its end with the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991. Until the very end of the Soviet system; its leaders believed they were carrying out the revolution Lenin had begun. With the authority and distinctive style that have marked his magisterial histories; Figes delivers an accessible and paradigm-shifting reconsideration of one of the defining events of the twentieth century.