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Perusing Sheila Fitzpatrick's The Russian Revolution

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I enjoyed perusing Sheila Fitzpatrick’s book The Russian Revolution. I think critics are not giving her enough credit for exploring the social, cultural, and even the psychological history of revolutionary Russia. The setting she describes of the feudal setting is consistent with that described by Richard Pipes. This is a difficult history to elucidate as the psychology and culture of feudal systems is poorly documented. Historians have attempted to elucidate the feudal history of the Huguenot Empire leading up through the eventual success of the revolution in Switzerland. W. G. Rosenberg has an excellent article discussing the theories of emotional history and acknowledges the difficulty with proper assessment. He specifically reviews
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