the bolsheviks come to power… · 2017. 8. 8. · the bolsheviks come to power the revolution of...

The Bolsheviks Come to Power

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 1 28/04/2017 15:48

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 2 28/04/2017 15:48

The BolsheviksCome to Power

The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd

NEW EDITION

Alexander Rabinowitch

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 3 28/04/2017 15:48

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 6 28/04/2017 15:48

First published in 1976 by W.W. Norton and Company, New York

This new edition first published 2017 by Pluto Press345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA

www.plutobooks.com

Copyright © 1976, 2004, and 2017 by Alexander Rabinowitch

British Library Cataloguing in Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 0 7453 9999 7 HardbackISBN 978 0 7453 9998 0 PaperbackISBN 978 1 7868 0102 9 PDF eBookISBN 978 1 7868 0104 3 Kindle eBookISBN 978 1 7868 0103 6 EPUB eBook

This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental standards of the country of origin.

Typeset in the United States of America

Printed in the United Kingdom

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 4 28/04/2017 15:48

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 10 28/04/2017 15:48

Contents

List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Note on Transliteration, Dates, and Terminology xv Preface to the Centenary Edition xvii Introduction xxxiii 1 • The July Uprising 1 2 • The Bolsheviks Under Fire 17 3 • Petrograd During the Reaction 39 4 • The Ineffectivenes of Repression 51 5 • The Bolshevik Resurgence 83 6 • The Rise of Kornilov 94 7 • Kornilov versus Kerensky 110 8 • The Bolsheviks and Kornilov’s Defeat 129 9 • The Question of a New Government 151 10 • “All Power to the Soviets!” 168 11 • Lenin’s Campaign for an Insurrection 191 12 • Obstacles to an Uprising 209 13 • The Garrison Crisis and the Military Revolutionary Committee 224 14 • On the Eve 249 15 • The Bolsheviks Come to Power 273 16 • Epilogue 305 Notes 315 Selected Bibliography 358 Index 379

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 7 28/04/2017 15:48

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 1 28/04/2017 15:48

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 2 28/04/2017 15:48

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 3 28/04/2017 15:48

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 4 28/04/2017 15:48

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 5 28/04/2017 15:48

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 6 28/04/2017 15:48

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 7 28/04/2017 15:48

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 8 28/04/2017 15:48

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 9 28/04/2017 15:48

BolsheviksComeToPower_text_12 FINAL 10 28/04/2017 15:48