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About Russia, Its Revolutions, Its Development and Its Present and Its Development Its Revolutions, Its Russia, About Prager Schriften zur Zeitgeschichte 10 Prager Schriften zur Zeitgeschichte und zum Zeitgeschehen 10 und zum Zeitgeschehen 10 Michal Reiman Michal Reiman About Russia, Its Revolutions, Reiman Michal Its Development and Its Present The author analyzes modern Russian established terror as an instrument for About Russia, history from a new perspective. Due to social reorganization. WWII revealed the the ideological heritage of the XIX and XX necessity of a correction of these devel- century, the social settings of the socio- opments, but the events of the Cold War Its Revolutions, political history of the USSR (1917-1945) circumvented any further considerations. have not been fully identified. Detailed examination of ideological and political Its Development concepts shows that the revolution of 1917 became not a middle class, proletarian The Author movement, but rather a plebeian one. The Michal Reiman lectured at the College of and Its Present misjudgment by the new power enabled Political Science in Prague and was Pro- growth but caused tremendous losses of fessor at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political human lives and material damages. So- Science at Freie Universität Berlin and at cialization of economy and strict central- the Institute for International Studies at ization led to a new social structure and Charles University Prague. About Russia, Its Revolutions, Its Development and Its Present and Its Development Its Revolutions, Its Russia, About ISBN 978-3-631-67136-8 Prager Schriften zur Zeitgeschichte 10 Prager Schriften zur Zeitgeschichte und zum Zeitgeschehen 10 und zum Zeitgeschehen 10 Michal Reiman Michal Reiman About Russia, Its Revolutions, Reiman Michal Its Development and Its Present The author analyzes modern Russian established terror as an instrument for About Russia, history from a new perspective. Due to social reorganization. WWII revealed the the ideological heritage of the XIX and XX necessity of a correction of these devel- century, the social settings of the socio- opments, but the events of the Cold War Its Revolutions, political history of the USSR (1917-1945) circumvented any further considerations. have not been fully identified. Detailed examination of ideological and political Its Development concepts shows that the revolution of 1917 became not a middle class, proletarian The Author movement, but rather a plebeian one. The Michal Reiman lectured at the College of and Its Present misjudgment by the new power enabled Political Science in Prague and was Pro- growth but caused tremendous losses of fessor at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political human lives and material damages. So- Science at Freie Universität Berlin and at cialization of economy and strict central- the Institute for International Studies at ization led to a new social structure and Charles University Prague. 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