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

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Salisbury, Harrison E. -- 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