The October Revolution / / 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.

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1979]
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Year of Publication:1979
Language:English
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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