ABSTRACT
This collection presents the major recent writings on the Russian Revolution and its context. It brings together key texts to illustrate new interpretive approaches and covers the central topics and themes. Together, the chapters in this volume form a coherent representation of both the events and the theories and debates that relate to them.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|61 pages
The Varieties of Social History
part 2|67 pages
Language and Identity
part 3|44 pages
Revisiting the Provisional Government and the Failure of the Moderates
chapter 7|16 pages
From Rhapsody to Threnody
Russia's Provisional Government in Socialist-Revolutionary eyes, February–July 1917
chapter 8|26 pages
The Rise and Fall of Smolensk's Moderate Socialists
The Politics of Class and the Rhetoric of Crisis in 1917
part 4|82 pages
Rethinking the Bolshevik Seizure of Power
chapter 9|24 pages
Lenin, Trotskii and the Arts of Insurrection
The Congress of Soviets of the Northern Region, 11–13 October 1917
chapter 11|24 pages
The All-Russian Constituent Assembly and the Democratic Alternative
Two Views of the Problem
