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The Mensheviks after October : Socialist Opposition and the Rise of the Bolshevik Dictatorship /

In this major contribution to our understanding of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Brovkin provides the fullest account to date of the Menshevik party during the first year of Soviet rule. Focusing on the period from October 1917 through October 1918--months when the Soviet political system still p...

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Autor principal: Brovkin, Vladimir (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Illustrations --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Introduction --  |t Note on Transliteration and Dating Systems --  |t ABBREVIATIONS --  |t Prologue: The Road to October --  |t PART I. CATACLYSM AND READJUSTMENT. October 1917-March 1918 --  |t PART II. ELECTORAL POLITICS. March-May 1918 --  |t PART III. THE SHOWDOWN. May-October 1918 --  |t Conclusions --  |t APPENDIX. Members of the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party --  |t Selected Bibliography --  |t Index 
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