{"title":"Sean McMeekin","description":"Sean McMeekin is a professor of history at Bard College. The award-winning author of several books, including To Overthrow the World, Stalin's War, The Russian Revolution, and The Ottoman Endgame, McMeekin lives in Clermont, New York.","products":[{"product_id":"july-1914-countdown-to-war-paperback","title":"July 1914: Countdown to War - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive account of the month after Franz Ferdinand's assassination, revealing how reckless statesmen directly led to World War I. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Almost impossible to put down ... A punchy and riveting narrative.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, no one could have imagined the shocking bloodshed that would soon follow. 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His\u003ci\u003e Russian Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e grips the reader.\" --Niall Ferguson  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Russian Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolskeviks into power, and introduced communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse of the Tsarist regime in the middle of World War I, the Bolsheviks staged a hostile takeover of the Russian Imperial Army, promoting mutinies and mass desertions of men in order to fulfill Lenin's program of turning the \"imperialist war\" into civil war. 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This is history as a warning.\" --\u003ci\u003eWashington Examiner \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Hayek Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was not. While Russia may no longer be Communist, Communism and sympathy for Communist ideas have proliferated across the globe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In\u003ci\u003e To Overthrow the World\u003c\/i\u003e, Sean McMeekin investigates the evolution of Communism from a seductive ideal of a classless society into the ruling doctrine of tyrannical regimes. Tracing Communism's ascent from theory to practice, McMeekin ranges from Karl Marx's writings to the rise and fall of the USSR under Stalin to Mao's rise to power in China to the acceleration of Communist or Communist-inspired policies around the world in the twenty-first century. 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