The Russian Revolution, 1917


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This book explores the 1917 Russian Revolution from its February Revolution beginning to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in October.




The Bolsheviks in Power


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Access to newly opened archives has allowed Alexander Rabinowitch to substantially rewrite the history of how the Bolsheviks consolidated their power in Russia. Focusing on the first year of Soviet rule in St Petersburg, he shows how state organs evolved in the face of repeated crises.




The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century


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"David North argues that, to the extent that the twentieth century is defined as an epoch of intense capitalist crisis, it is most appropriately characterized as 'unfinished.' The central economic, social and political contradictions that confront mankind at the start of the twenty-first century are essentially the same as those it confronted at the beginning of the twentieth"--Provided by publisher.




The Bolsheviks Come to Power


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For generations in the West, Cold War animosity blocked dispassionate accounts of the Russian Revolution. This history authoritatively restores the upheaval's primary social actors-workers, soldiers, and peasants-to their rightful place at the center of the revolutionary process.







The Workers' Revolution in Russia, 1917


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An analysis of Bolshevik relations with the Russian working population.




April Theses


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The Petrograd Workers and the Soviet Seizure of Power


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This study questions a number of entrenched views in the historiography of the revolution, and seeks to explain why the power, so bitterly contested, began so soon to slip from the workers' hands.




The Bolshevik Response to Antisemitism in the Russian Revolution


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The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.




Russia in Revolution


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Russia in Revolution gives a full account of the Russian empire from the last years of the nineteenth century, through revolution and civil war, to the brutal collectivization and crash industrialization under Stalin in the late 1920s