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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968087803321

Autore

Rabinowitch Alexander

Titolo

The Bolsheviks in power : the first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd / / Alexander Rbinowitch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007

ISBN

9786612078316

9781282078314

1282078313

9780253116840

0253116848

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (518 p.)

Disciplina

947/.210841

Soggetti

Saint Petersburg (Russia) History Revolution, 1917-1921 Sources

Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Prologue: The Bolsheviks and the October revolution in Petrograd; Part One: The Defeat of the Moderates; 1. Formng a Government; 2. Rebels into Rulers; 3. Gathering Forces; 4. The Fate of the Constituent Assembly; Part Two: War or Peace?; 5. Fighting Lenin; 6. ""The Socialist Fatherland Is in Danger""; 7. An Obscene Peace; Part Three: Soviet Power on the Brink; 8. A Turbulent Spring; 9. Continuing Crises; 10. The Northern Commune and the Bolshevik-Left SR Alliance; 11. The Suicide of the Left SRs; Part Four: Celebration Amid Terror

12. The Road to ""Red Terror""13. The Red Terror in Petrograd; 14. Celebrating ""The Greatest Event in the History of the World""; 15. Price of Survival; Chronology of Key Events; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A major contribution to the historiography of the world in the 20th                century, The Bolsheviks in Power focuses on the fateful first year of Soviet rule in                Petrograd. It examines events that profoundly shaped the Soviet political system                that endured through most of the 20th century. Drawing largely from previously                



inaccessible Soviet archives, it demolishes standard interpretations of the origins                of Soviet authoritarianism by demonstrating that the Soviet system evolved ad hoc as                the Bolsheviks struggled