The October Revolution / / Roy A. Medvedev.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Medvedev, Roy A.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Salisbury, Harrison E.; Saunders, George.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1979]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 1979
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword /; Preface --; Translator's Notes --; PART ONE. Was the October Revolution Inevitable? --; 1. The Various Points of View: Social Revolution and the Role of the Individual --; 2. On the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution --; 3. On the October Socialist Revolution --; 4. Spontaneity and Organization in the Actions of the Masses in 1917 --; PART TWO. Was the October Revolution Premature? --; 5. Is a "Premature" Revolution Possible? --; 6. Socialist Revolution in Russia and the Position of the Mensheviks and SRs --; 7. The Position of the Bolsheviks --; PART THREE. The First Hundred Days After the October Revolution --; 8. The First Few Weeks After the Revolution --; 9. The Convening and Dispersal of the Constituent Assembly --; 10. The Economic Situation in the RSFSR in January and February 1918 --; PART FOUR. The Difficult Spring of 1918 --; 11. The Program of Economic Construction in Soviet Russia After Brest --; 12. The Masses Turn Away from the Bolsheviks --; 13. The Poor Peasants' Committees and the Beginning of the Civil War --; Some Conclusions --; Author's Notes --; Glossary --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231887403; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/medv92176
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Roy A. Medvedev.

Evaluates and considers the Bolshevik Revolution as Lenin's creation and looks at the hybrid society which emerged in Lenin's wake.