Ebook: The Bolsheviks Come to Power - New Edition: the Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd

Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration, Dates, and Terminology; Preface to the Centenary Edition; Introduction; 1. The July Uprising; 2. The Bolsheviks Under Fire; 3. Petrograd During the Reaction; 4. The Ineffectiveness of Repression; 5. The Bolshevik Resurgence; 6. The Rise of Kornilov; 7. Kornilov versus Kerensky; 8. The Bolsheviks and Kornilov's Defeat; 9. The Question of a New Government; 10. All Power to the Soviets! -- 11. Lenin's Campaign for an Insurrection; 12. Obstacles to an Uprising.;A new edition of a classic history of the Bolsheviks which destroys the platitudes of mainstream histories, reclaiming the revolution on its centenary.