| Description |
xx, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Essays first presented in preliminary form at a conference held in Jerusalem in Jan. 1988 as a tribute to Israel Getzler. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1917 : the problem of alternatives / Jonathan Frankel -- Political power and mass action. Soviets as agents of democratisation / Israel Getzler -- Political power in the Russian revolution : a case study of Saratov / Donald J. Raleigh -- The Red Guards : spontaneity and the October revolution / Rex A. Wade -- Officers of the general staff and the Kornilov movement / Allan Wildman -- Peasants, workers and bourgeoisie. The peasantry in the revolutions of 1917 / John Channon -- Perceptions and realities of labour protest, March to October 1917 / Diane P. Koenker and William G. Rosenberg -- October in the Ivanovo-Kineshma industrial region / David Mandel -- Commercial-industrial circles in revolution : the failure of 'industrial progressivism' / Ziva Galili -- Nationalities. Nationalism and class in the Russian revolution : a comparative discussion / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Georgian social democracy in 1917 / Stephen F. Jones -- The ethnic Germans in the Russian revolution / Ingeborg Fleischhauer. |
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(cont.) Leninism and the making of October. Lenin, socialism and the state in 1917 / Neil Harding -- The Bolsheviks on political campaign in 1917 : a case study of the war question / Robert Service -- Lenin's time budget : the Smolny period / John Keep -- 1917 in retrospect : historiography and theory. Iakovlev's question, or the historiography of the problem of spontaneity and leadership in the Russian revolution of February 1917 / D.A. Longley -- The libertarians vindicated? The libertarian view of the revolution in the light of recent western research / Edward Acton -- Russian Marxism : theory, action and outcome / Baruch Knei-Paz. |
| Subject |
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Frankel, Edith Rogovin.
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Frankel, Jonathan.
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Knei-Paz, Baruch.
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Getzler, Israel, 1920-2012.
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| ISBN |
0521405238 hardback |
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0521405858 paperback |
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