In this Book
- The Russian Revolution, Volume I: 1917-1918: From the Overthrow of the Tsar to the Assumption of Power by the Bolsheviks
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
This book is a richly detailed account of the Russian Revolution from the fall of the Tsar in March 1917 to the introduction of the New Economic Policy in March 1921. The author draws on interviews and on other kinds of now unavailable documents to produce a work that remains a unique view of early Soviet Russia.
Originally published in 1987.
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Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- p. xvi
- II. Pioneers of Revolution
- pp. 18-45
- IV. The Autocracy Collapses
- pp. 73-99
- V. First Steps of the New Regime
- pp. 100-120
- VII. The Deepening of the Revolution
- pp. 142-165
- VIII. July Days: The Revolution Checked
- pp. 166-191
- X. The Mutiny of the Russian Army
- pp. 223-241
- XI. The Peasant Upsurge
- pp. 242-259
- XII. The Revolt of Labor
- pp. 260-276
- XIII. On the Eve
- pp. 277-305
- XIV. The Bolsheviki Take Power
- pp. 306-334
- XV. The Revolution in the Country
- pp. 335-350
- XVI. First Steps of the New Regime
- pp. 351-372
- XVII. Civil War Begins
- pp. 373-388
- XVIII. Brest-Litovsk: The Struggle for Peace
- pp. 389-413
- XIX. The Shortlived "Breathing-Space"
- pp. 414-428