Alexander Rabinowitch is Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author of Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising (IUP, 1968) and The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Preface
Prologue: The Bolsheviks and the October Revolution in Petrograd
Part I: The Defeat of the Moderates
Chapter 1 Forming a Government
Chapter 2 Rebels into Rulers
Chapter 3 Gathering Forces
Chapter 4 The Fate of the Constituent Assembly
Part II: War or Peace
Chapter 5 Fighting Lenin
Chapter 6 "The Socialist Fatherland Is in Danger"
Chapter 7 An Obscene Peace
Part III: Soviet Power on the Brink
Chapter 8 A Turbulent Spring
Chapter 9 Continuing Crises
Chapter 10 The Northern Commune and the Bolshevik-Left SR Alliance
Chapter 11 The Suicide of the Left SRs
Part IV: Celebration amid Terror
Chapter 12 The Road to "Red Terror"
Chapter 13 The Red Terror in Petrograd
Chapter 14 Celebrating "the Greatest Event in the History of the World"
Chapter 15 Price of Survival
Chronology of Key Events
Notes
Bibliography
Index
