Table of Contents

1: The February Revolution and Provisional Government 2: Social Polarization and the Crisis of Power 3: Politics in the Civil War 4: Society and Economy in the Civil War 5: NEP Economy and Politics 6: NEP Culture and Society Conclusion

About the Author

Stephen Smith is Professor of History at the University of Essex. He works on the social history of the Russian and Chinese revoltuions and is author of Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 1983), and A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920-27 (Curzon Press, 2000).