Prelude to Revolution

"... an expert work... remarkable for its objectivity, judiciousness, and its sure handling of the available evidence." -- Political Science Quarterly"... a fine piece of historical writing." -- Soviet Studies"An able and scholarly inquiry into the perplexing abortive Petrograd uprising of June and July 1917... a very interesting view of revolutionary action on the local level." -- Foreign AffairsFirst published in 1968, this pioneering study of revolutionary events in Petrograd in the summer of 1917 revised the established view of the Bolsheviks as a monolithic party. Rabinowitch documents how the party's pluralistic nature had crucial implications for the outcome of the revolution in October.