Chamberlin W.H. The Russian Revolution. 1917-1921. Volume 1

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. — 511 p.The first study of the Russian Revolution in English was written by William Henry Chamberlin (1897-1969), an American publicist and historian. Between 1922 and 1934. Chamberlin lived and worked in Moscow as a correspondent for the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor newspaper. His long stay in the Soviet Union gave him a great deal of material for his subsequent journalistic and lecturing activities - Chamberlin was considered one of the greatest experts on the USSR, and was often invited to lecture at US institutions of higher learning (in particular, at Yale and Harvard Universities).As a historian Chamberlin was a pragmatist and "pluralist", strove for balance and objectivity in writing his works, was an admirer of the work and views of V.O. Klyuchevsky (he liked to often repeat the aphorism of the Moscow historian: ": "The state was plump, but the people were getting worse").In his 2-volume study, the historian covered the period from the fall of the tsarist regime to the Kronstadt Uprising and the transition to the NEP. The 1st volume is devoted to 1917, the 2nd volume - to the Civil War, there are maps and illustrations. The work characterises the leading political leaders from Lenin to Milyukov, analyses military actions on the Civil War fronts, and focuses on workers, soldiers and peasants. Chamberlin's work became a classic in the West and for a long time, until the 1960s, remained the only significant study on the subject.