The Bolsheviks in Power

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The dramatic story of the Bolsheviks' struggle to consolidate power and create a new government in Russia after the Revolution of 1917

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Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Prologue: The Bolsheviks and the October Revolution in Petrograd	p. 1
The Defeat of the Moderates
Forming a Government	p. 17
Rebels into Rulers	p. 54
Gathering Forces	p. 80
The Fate of the Constituent Assembly	p. 104
War or Peace?
Fighting Lenin	p. 131
"The Socialist Fatherland Is in Danger"	p. 155
An Obscene Peace	p. 181
Soviet Power on the Brink
A Turbulent Spring	p. 213
Continuing Crises	p. 237
The Northern Commune and the Bolshevik-Left SR Alliance	p. 260
The Suicide of the Left SRs	p. 283
Celebration and Terror
The Road to "Red Terror"	p. 313
The Red Terror in Petrograd	p. 330
Celebrating "The Greatest Event in the History of the World"	p. 356
Price of Survival	p. 389
Chronology of Key Events	p. 403
Notes	p. 409
Selected Bibliography	p. 455
Index	p. 475
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