![]() | The Menshevik Leaders in the Russian Revolution: Social Realities and Political Strategies Subjects: Socialism -- Soviet Union -- History; Petrogradskiǐ sovet rabochikh i krasnoarmeǐskikh deputatov -- History; Mensheviks; Soviet Union -- History -- February Revolution 1917; At the end of Febraury 1917 the tsarist government of Russia collapsed in a whirlwind of demonstrations by the workers and soldier of Petrograd. Ziva Galili tells how the moderate socialists, or Mensheviks, then attempted to prevent the conflicts between the newly formed liberal Provisional Government (the "bourgeois" camp) and the Petrograd Soviet (the "democractic" camp) from escalating into civil war--and how, in October of that same year, they finally failed. Placing narrative history in a broad social and political context, she creates an absorbing study of idealists who tried in vain to reflect as well as to contain the unfolding revolutionary process. |
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