The Menshevik leaders in the Russian Revolution : social realities and political strategies / Ziva Galili.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galili y Garcia, Ziva, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Studies of the Harriman Institute.

Studies of the Harriman Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petrogradskiĭ Sovet rabochikh i krasnoarmeĭskikh deputatov--History.

Petrogradskiĭ Sovet rabochikh i krasnoarmeĭskikh deputatov.

Socialism--Soviet Union--History.

Socialism.

Russia--History--February Revolution, 1917.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 452 p., [8] p. of plates ) ill. ;

Edition:

Princeton legacy library edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the end of February 1917 the tsarist government of Russia collapsed in a whirlwind of demonstrations by the workers and soldier of Petrograd. Ziva Galili tells how the moderate socialists, or Mensheviks, then attempted to prevent the conflicts between the newly formed liberal Provisional Government (the "bourgeois" camp) and the Petrograd Soviet (the "democratic" camp) from escalating into civil war--and how, in October of that same year, they finally failed. Placing narrative history in a broad social and political context, she creates an absorbing study of idealists who tried in vain to reflect as well as to contain the unfolding revolutionary process. Galili focuses on the Menshevik Revolutionary Defensists who became the leaders of the Petrograd Soviet and of the all-Russian network of soviets. She examines Menshevik political strategy as well as the three-way interaction between Mnesheviks (both in the Soviet and the Provisional Government), workers, and industrialists. She emphasizes the perceptual and interactive aspects of the analysis of revolutions: the relations between social realities, perceptions of realities, and the formulation of political strategies; the roles of rhetoric's and societal conflict in shaping social identities; and the impact of political authority and state institutions on the terms of social interaction. Ziva Galili is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is coeditor and annotator of The Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries: Voice from the Menshevik Past (Cambridge).Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Author's Note

Abbreviations

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. The February Revolution and Its Leaders

CHAPTER TWO. The Origins of Dual Power

CHAPTER THREE. Dual Power Tested : Workers, Industrialists , and the Menshevi k Mediators

CHAPTER FOUR. Dual Power Reexamined: The Questions of the Economy, the War, and Political Power

CHAPTER FIVE. Toward a Coalition Government

CHAPTER SIX. Labor Relations under Coalition: Social Conflict and Economic Crisis

CHAPTER SEVEN. The Menshevik Ministry of Labor: Socialists in a Coalition Government

CHAPTER EIGHT. The Coalition in Crisis

CHAPTER NINE. Revolutionary Defensism at an Impasse

Conclusions

Appendixes

Bibliography

Index

Studies of the Harriman Institute

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-429) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Jun 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691655697

0691655693

9780691198064

0691198063

OCLC:

1112129016