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Mensheviks --- Socialist parties --- History. --- History --- Soviet Union --- Mensheviks - History. --- Socialist parties - Soviet Union - History.

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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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Communism --- Socialism --- Mensheviks. --- Pilʹni͡ak, Boris, --- Trotsky, Lev Davidovitch, --- Soviet Union --- Soviet Union --- History --- Politics and government.

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Mensheviks --- Mencheviks --- Rossiĭskai︠a︡ sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partii︠a︡. --- Soviet Union --- URSS --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement

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Paul Kellogg uses the story of Vorkuta, a notorious camp in the Gulag internment system, as a frame with which to re-assess the Russian Revolution. In particular, he turns to the contributions of Iulii Martov, a contemporary of Lenin, and his analysis of the central role played in the revolution by a temporary class of peasants-in-uniform. Kellogg explores the persistence and creativity of workers' resistance in even the darkest hours of authoritarian repression and offers new perspectives on the failure of democratic governance after the Russian Revolution.

Martov, L., --- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, --- Vorkuta (Komi, Russia : Concentration camp) --- History. --- Arctic Gulags. --- Authoritarianism. --- Bolsheviks. --- Bolshevism. --- Gulag. --- Hunger Strikes. --- Leftists. --- Lenin. --- Martov. --- Mensheviks. --- Miners Union. --- Oral Newspaper. --- Russian Revolution. --- Socialism. --- Solzhenitsyn. --- Stalinism. --- Substitutionism. --- The Great Purge. --- The Great Terror. --- Trotsky. --- Vorkuta. --- Workers Resistance.