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In this major contribution to our understanding of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Brovkin provides the fullest account to date of the Menshevik party during the first year of Soviet rule. Focusing on the period from October 1917 through October 1918-months when the Soviet political system still permitted a degree of electoral competition among political parties-he explores the moderate socialists' opposition to the Bolsheviks. Why, he asks, did the competition between the Bolsheviks and their socialist opponents lead to a violent confrontation? And how did their struggle shape the increasingly repressive political system that emerged during this period?Brovkin examines several major aspects of Menshevik party history in an effort to discover the organization's place in the revolutionary upheavals that rocked Russian society. He analyzes the debates within the party over the best policy for opposing the Bolsheviks and describes the Mensheviks' attempt to undermine their rivals by winning the support of the working class. He depicts too the struggle for party leadership and the changing composition of the membership. Finally, Brovkin explores the Mensheviks' interactions with their sometime ally the Socialist Revolutionary (SR) party and other opposition groups and traces the increasingly confrontational competition between the moderate socialists and the Bolsheviks, concluding his account with the onslaught of the Red Terror and the first stage of the civil war.Drawing on an impressive array of primary sources, Brovkin convincingly shows that as the political struggle progressed, the Mensheviks, together with the SRs, were seen as a serious challenge to the Bolsheviks. He argues, further, that the Bolsheviks' determination to counter this perceived threat led them to undertake the repressive actions that both crushed their opposition and transformed the Soviet government into a dictatorship.

Mensheviks. --- Rossiĭskai͡a sot͡sial-demokraticheskai͡a rabochai͡a partii͡a --- History. --- Soviet Union --- History

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A major contribution to the historiography of the world in the 20th century, The Bolsheviks in Power focuses on the fateful first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd. It examines events that profoundly shaped the Soviet political system that endured through most of the 20th century. Drawing largely from previously inaccessible Soviet archives, it demolishes standard interpretations of the origins of Soviet authoritarianism by demonstrating that the Soviet system evolved ad hoc as the Bolsheviks struggled

Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, --- Lenin, Vladimir Il'ič --- Lenin, Vladimir Iljitsj --- Lenin, Wladimir Iljitsch --- Lenin, Vladímir Ilich --- Lénine, Vladimir Ilitch --- Lénine, Vladimir Iliç --- Lenin, Nikolaj --- Lenin, Nicolai --- Ul'janov, Vladimir Il'ič --- Oeljanov, Vladimir Iljitsj --- Uljanow, Wladimir Iljitsch --- Ulyanov, Vladimir Ilyich --- Uliánov, Vladímir Ilich --- Oulianov, Vladimir Ilitch --- Oulianov, Wladimir Iljitsch --- Ленин, Владимир Ильич, --- Illiin, We., --- Ilʹin, Vladimīr, --- I-li-chʻi, --- Lenine, Wladimir Ilitch Oulianof, --- Lenin, Nicolai, --- Lenin, Nikolaj, --- Lenin, V. I. --- Ленин, В. И. --- Lenin, Vi. Ai., --- Ulʹi︠a︡nov, V. --- Ульянов, В. --- Ulʹi︠a︡nov, Vladimir Ilʹich, --- Ульянов, Владимир Ильич, --- Lenjin, V. I., --- Lenine, N., --- Lenin, W. I. --- Ulianov, V. I., --- Lenin, N., --- L̦en̦ins, V. A. --- Liening, --- Lieh-ning, --- 列寧, --- Lenin, --- Oulianov, Vladimir, --- Lenin, Vlagyimir Iljics, --- Lenjin, Vladimir Iljič, --- Uljanov, Vladimir Iljič, --- Lenin, Niḳolay, --- Līnīn, --- Ulyanoṿ, Ṿ., --- Lenin, Ṿ., --- Lenin, U. I. --- Lenin, Uladzimir Ilʹich, --- לאנין, ולאדימיר --- לנין, וולדימיר איליץ, --- לנין, וו. אי --- לענין, וו.אי --- לענין, ניקאלאי --- לענין, ניקאלאי, --- לענין, נ. --- לענין, נ., --- לענין, װלאדימיר איליטש, --- לענין, װ. אי --- לענין, װ. אי., --- לענין, װ. י. --- לענין, װ.אי., --- לענינ, וולאדימיר איליטש --- لينين --- Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza --- Rossiĭskai͡a sot͡sial-demokraticheskai͡a rabochai͡a partii͡a (bolʹshevikov) --- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii --- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ RSFSR --- Vsesoi︠u︡znai︠a︡ kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (bolʹshevikov) (1925-1952) --- Vsesoi︠u︡znai︠a︡ kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (bolʹshevikov) (1991- ) --- Communist Party of the Soviet Union --- Communist Party of USSR --- CPSU --- Đảng cộng sản Liên xô --- Kamunistychnai︠a︡ partyi︠a︡ Savetskaha Sai︠u︡za --- KKSE --- Kommounistikon Komma tēs Sobietikēs Henōseōs --- Kommunistische Partei der Sowjet Union --- Komunistička partija Sovjetskog Saveza --- Komunistická strana Sovětského svazu --- Komunistychna partii︠a︡ Radi︠a︡nsʹkoho Soi︠u︡zu --- Komunistyczna Partia Związku Radzieckiego --- KPdSU --- KPR --- KPRS --- KPSS --- KPZR --- KSSS --- KSSZ --- Miflagah ha-ḳomunisṭit shel Berit-ha-Moʻatsot --- Neuvostoliiton kommunistinen puolue --- NKP --- NLKP --- Nõukogude Liidu Kommunistlik Partei --- Partai Komunis Uni Sovjet --- Parti communiste de l'Union soviétique --- Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética --- Partido Comunista Ruso --- Partito comunista Unione sovietica --- PCUS --- Phō̜kō̜sō̜sō̜ --- PKUS --- Rokoku Kyōsantō --- Roshia Kyōsantō --- Rosia Kongsandang --- Sabčotʻa Kavširis Komunisturi Partia --- SKKP --- SMKK --- SMKP --- Sobieto Kyōsantō --- Soren Kyōsantō --- Sorenpō Kyōsantō --- Sov. IKP --- Sovet Ittifagy Kommunist Partii̐asy --- Sovetakan Miutʻian Komunistakan Kusaktsʻutʻyun --- Sovetakan Miutʻian Komunistakan Partia --- Soviet Communist Party --- Soviet Union. --- Sōviyata Saṅghakī Kamyunisṭa Pārṭī --- Sovjetunionens kommunistiska parti --- Sovyetler Birliği Komünist Partisi --- Su-lien kung chʻan tang --- SUKP --- SZKP --- Szovjetunió Kommunista Pártja --- U̇mum Ittifag Kommunist Partii︠a︡sy --- Zenrenpō Kyōsantō --- ZKhUKN --- Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Ulsyn Kommunist Nam --- Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза --- אלקפ (ב) --- מפלגה הקומוניסטית של ברית־המועצות --- 蘇聯共產黨 --- Rossiĭskai︠a︡ sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ --- Rossiĭskai︠a︡ kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (bolʹshevikov) --- RSDRP(b) --- Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Russlands (Bolschewiki) --- Soc. dem. Arbeiterpartei Russlands (Bolschewiki) --- Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) --- Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия (большевиков) --- Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия (bolʹshevikov) --- History --- Soviet Union --- Saint Petersburg (Russia) --- Russia --- Saint Petersburg (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Pietari (Russia) --- Peterburi (Russia) --- Peterburg (Russia) --- Piter (Russia) --- St. Petersburg (Russia) --- Petersburg (Russia) --- Sankt-Peterburg (Russia) --- Санкт-Петербург (Russia) --- Sanktpeterburg (Russia) --- Санктпетербург (Russia) --- Saint-Pétersbourg (Russia) --- San Pietroburgo (Russia) --- Petroupolis (Russia) --- Petropolis (Russia) --- Petrograd (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Leningrad (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie) --- URSS --- Sources. --- Histoire --- Sources --- Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, --- Rossiiskaia sotsial-demokraticheskaia rabochaia partiia (bolshevikov) --- Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza