Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Foreword VII
4. Preface XVII
5. Translator's Notes XXI
6. PART ONE. Was the October Revolution Inevitable?
7. 1. The Various Points of View: Social Revolution and the Role of the Individual 3
8. 2. On the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution 16
9. 3. On the October Socialist Revolution 28
10. 4. Spontaneity and Organization in the Actions of the Masses in 1917 36
11. PART TWO. Was the October Revolution Premature?
12. 5. Is a “Premature” Revolution Possible? 57
13. 6. Socialist Revolution in Russia and the Position of the Mensheviks and SRs 63
14. 7. The Position of the Bolsheviks 75
15. PART THREE. The First Hundred Days After the October Revolution
16. 8. The First Few Weeks After the Revolution 93
17. 9. The Convening and Dispersal of the Constituent Assembly 103
18. 10. The Economic Situation in the RSFSR in January and February 1918 115
19. PART FOUR. The Difficult Spring of 1918
20. 11. The Program of Economic Construction in Soviet Russia After Brest 127
21. 12. The Masses Turn Away from the Bolsheviks 145
22. 13. The Poor Peasants' Committees and the Beginning of the Civil War 161
23. Some Conclusions 177
24. Author’s Notes 189
25. Glossary 201
26. Index 231