The Formation of the Soviet Union

Reviews of the first edition:

“Simply to chronicle the highly complicated sequence of events in the ethnic borderlands of Russia during the tumultuous years between 1917 and 1923 is a difficult problem by itself. Richard Pipes has not only accomplished this task…but he has given this complex story meaning and perspective.”—Political Science Quarterly

“The most lucid description of the nationalist revolutionary upheavals following the October revolution.”—International Journal

“Pipes has succeeded remarkably well in elucidating a most complex subject and in giving a systematic, well-documented, and well-written account of the stormy years, 1917–1923.”—Russian Review