The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd

Cover......Page 1
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 18
Prologue: The Bolsheviks and the October revolution in Petrograd......Page 24
Part One: The Defeat of the Moderates......Page 38
1. Formng a Government......Page 40
2. Rebels into Rulers......Page 77
3. Gathering Forces......Page 103
4. The Fate of the Constituent Assembly......Page 127
Part Two: War or Peace?......Page 152
5. Fighting Lenin......Page 154
6. \"The Socialist Fatherland Is in Danger\"......Page 178
7. An Obscene Peace......Page 204
Part Three: Soviet Power on the Brink......Page 234
8. A Turbulent Spring......Page 236
9. Continuing Crises......Page 260
10. The Northern Commune and the Bolshevik-Left SR Alliance......Page 283
11. The Suicide of the Left SRs......Page 306
Part Four: Celebration Amid Terror......Page 334
12. The Road to \"Red Terror\"......Page 336
13. The Red Terror in Petrograd......Page 353
14. Celebrating \"The Greatest Event in the History of the World\"......Page 379
15. Price of Survival......Page 412
Chronology of Key Events......Page 426
Notes......Page 432
Selected Bibliography......Page 478
Index......Page 498