Mark-David Mandel, The Petrograd Workers and the Soviet Seizure of Power. From July Days 1917 to July 1918.

The Petrograd Workers and the Soviet Seizure of Power.
From July Days 1917 to July 1918 (1986)
Contents

Une édition électronique réalisée à partir du livre de Mark-David Mandel, The Petrograd Workers and the Soviet Seizure of Power. From July Days 1917 to July 1918. London: MACMILLAN, Macmillan Academic and Professional Ltd., in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies University of Birmingham. 1st edition, 1984. Reprinted, 1986, 211 à 447 pp. + 12 pp (248 pp.). Une édition numérique réalisée par Marcelle Bergeron, bénévole, professeure retraitée de l'École polyvalente Dominique-Racine de Chicoutimi. [Autorisation accordée par l'auteur le 13 décembre 2006 de diffuser ce livre dans Les Classiques des sciences sociales.]

Contents

List of Tables

Glossary and Abbreviations

Preface

1. RETHINKING THE REVOLUTION REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRACY OR PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP?

Census Society on the Offensive

The Workers' Response

2. FROM THE KORNILOV RISING TO THE EVE OF OCTOBER

The Kornilov Rising

The Democratic Conference

Setting Course for Soviet Power

3. CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE FACTORIES

The Factory Committees under Attack

The Struggle for Production -Workers' Control Checked

4. ON THE EVE

5. THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE DEMISE OF REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRACY

Attitudes towards the Insurrection

The Debate over a 'Homogeneous Socialist Government'

6. THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY AND THE EMERGENCE OF A WORKER OPPOSITION

The Elections

Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly

The Chernorabochie and the Anarchist Upsurge

The Lines Harden

7. THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION IN THE FACTORIES

8. SOVIET POWER FOR BETTER OR WORSE

Dispersal and Transformation of the Petrograd Working Class

The 'Obscene Peace'

The Opposition – Growth and Failure

CONCLUSION

Selected Bibliography

Index

[N.B.: Page numbers in this edition do not correspond to page numbers in the paper book edition. MB]

Page-numbering in this book follows on consecutively from the companion volume, The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Regime.