Description
Book SynopsisA new edition of a classic history of the Bolsheviks which destroys the platitudes of mainstream histories, reclaiming the revolution on its centenary
Trade Review'I know of no previous work which has so skilfully presented the fluctuating state of the mood of the 'masses' in the Russian capital in those fateful months' -- Leonard Shapiro, New York Review of Books
'Remains the best book on the 1917 Russian revolution - a seminal study of events that shaped history for decades and continues to do so even today' -- Stephen F. Cohen, New York University
'A brilliant, convincing, and exciting book' -- Stanley Plastrik, Dissent
'Essential reading…with a narrative skill which all too few historians could match' -- Robert M. Slusser, Baltimore Sun
'Draws together the sequence of events in Petrograd, the mass moods there, and the role of the party, all the while demonstrating the reciprocal effects of each set of factors on one another…a vivid picture of politics in 1917' -- Louis Menashe, Radical History Review
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration, Dates and Terminology
Preface to the Centenary Edition
Introduction
1. The July Uprising
2. The Bolsheviks Under Fire
3. Petrograd During the Reaction
4. The Ineffectiveness of Repression
5. The Bolshevik Resurgence
6. The Rise of Kornilov
7. Kornilov versus Kerensky
8. The Bolsheviks and Kornilov’s Defeat
9. The Question of a New Government
10. 'All Power to the Soviets!'
11. Lenin’s Campaign for an Insurrection
12. Obstacles to an Uprising
13. The Garrison Crisis and the Military Revolutionary Committee
14. On the Eve
15. The Bolsheviks Come to Power
16. Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
