The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Bolshevik Rule in Petrograd

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Published on the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution, The Bolsheviks in Power by Alexander Rabinowitch, emeritus professor at Indiana University, is a significant work of historical scholarship. It will serve, for many years to come, as an essential reference point for the study of the political and social aftermath of the overthrow of the bourgeois Provisional Government and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime. In contrast to so many others working in the field of Soviet studies, who have adapted themselves to the prevailing climate of intellectual dishonesty and cynicism, Professor Rabinowitch has not compromised his integrity as a scholar.

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Published on the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution, The Bolsheviks in Power by Alexander Rabinowitch, emeritus professor at Indiana University, is a significant work of historical scholarship. It will serve, for many years to come, as an essential reference point for the study of the political and social aftermath of the overthrow of the bourgeois Provisional Government and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime. In contrast to so many others working in the field of Soviet studies who have adapted themselves to the prevailing climate of intellectual dishonesty and cynicism, Professor Rabinowitch has not compromised his integrity as a scholar.

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Author	Alexander Rabinowitch
Publisher	Indiana University Press
Publication Date	2007
Pages	494
Publication Type	Paperback
ISBN	978 0 253 22042 4

Chapter	Page
Preface & Acknowledgements	ix
Abbreviations	*xvii*
Prologue: The Bolsheviks and the October Revolution in Petrograd	1
I. The Defeat of the Moderates
1. Forming a Government	17
2. Rebels into Rulers	54
3. Gathering Forces	80
4. The Fate of the Constituent Assembly	*104*
II. War or Peace?
5. Fighting Lenin	*131*
6. "The Socialist Fatherland Is in Danger"	*155*
7. An Obscene Peace	*181*
III. Soviet Power on the Brink
8. A Turbulent Spring	*213*
9. Continuing Crises	*237*
10. The Northern Commune and the Bolshevik-Left SR Alliance	*260*
11. The Suicide of the Left SRs	*283*
IV. Celebration amid Terror
12. The Road to "Red Terror"	*313*
13. The Red Terror in Petrograd	*330*
14. Celebrating "The Greatest Event in the History of the World"	*356*
15. Price of Survival	*389*
Chronology of Key Events	*403*
Notes	*409*
Selected Bibliography	*455*
Index	*475*

Alexander Rabinowitch is a Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University. He has written extensively on early Soviet history. His book, The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, was the second work ever written by a Western historian to be published in the Soviet Union. Over the course of four decades, he has authored and co-authored many other books and articles including: Prelude to Revolution, The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising; Russia in the era of the NEP; and Politics and Society in Petrograd, 1917-1920: The Bolsheviks, the Lower Classes, and Soviet Power, Petrograd, February 1917 - July 1918. His most recent work is The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd .

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