Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 The historiography of the Revolution; Part 2 The course of the Revolution; Chapter 2 The impact of war; Chapter 3 The February Revolution and the origins of Dual Power; Chapter 4 Politics and crises; Chapter 5 The Kornilov affair; Chapter 6 The October Revolution; Chapter 7 The origins of the Bolshevik dictatorship; Chapter 8 The Civil War; Part 3 The issues of the Revolution; Chapter 9 Agriculture and the peasants; Chapter 10 Industry and the workers; Chapter 11 The national minorities; Chapter 12 The war and the army; Part 4 Opposition; Chapter 13 Communist oppositions; Chapter 14 The Mensheviks and the Social Revolutionaries; Chapter 15 The Communist autocracy challenged; Part 5 Conclusion; Chapter 16 The roots of the Communist autocracy;

About the Author

Ronald Kowalski is Senior Lecturer in Russian History at Worcester College of Higher Education, Worcester.

Reviews

'This collection of documents is to be welcomed. Kowalski has done students of the revolution an important service by bringing together some of the most important documents of the revolution, and indeed of the twentieth century, in a convenient and polished format.' - Europe-Asia Studies