A major contribution to the historiography of the world in the 20th century, The Bolsheviks in Power focuses on the fateful first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd. It examines events that profoundly s
For generations in the West, Cold War animosity blocked dispassionate accounts of the Russian Revolution. This history authoritatively restores the upheaval's primary social actors—workers, soldiers,
In the months following the collapse of the Tsarist regime in war-torn Russia, the Bolshevik Party emerged from obscurity to overthrow the provisional government and establish the world’s first commun
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