Bolsheviks come to power : the revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. / Alexander Rabinowitch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabinowitch, Alexander, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saint Petersburg (Russia).

Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History--Revolution--1917-1921.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

New edition.

Other Title:

Bolsheviks Come to Power

Bolsheviks Come to Power - New Edition

Place of Publication:

London, England : Pluto Press, 2017.

Summary:

A new edition of a classic history of the Bolsheviks which destroys the platitudes of mainstream histories, reclaiming the revolution on its centenary.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 14, 2017).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78680-102-7

OCLC:

988175094