Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising

Author/Contributor(s):	Rabinowitch, Alexander
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Date:	08/22/1991
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

. . . an expert work . . . remarkable for its objectivity, judiciousness, and its sure handling of the available evidence. --Political Science Quarterly

. . . a fine piece of historical writing. --Soviet Studies

An able and scholarly inquiry into the perplexing abortive Petrograd uprising of June and July 1917 . . . a very interesting view of revolutionary action on the local level. --Foreign Affairs

First published in 1968, this pioneering study of revolutionary events in Petrograd in the summer of 1917 revised the established view of the Bolsheviks as a monolithic party. Rabinowitch documents how the party's pluralistic nature had crucial implications for the outcome of the revolution in October.