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Political Science Communism & Socialism

The Petrograd Workers in the Russian Revolution

February 1917-June 1918

by (author) David Mandel

Publisher
Haymarket Books
Initial publish date
Dec 2018
Category
Communism & Socialism, 20th Century, Social History
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781608460069
    Publish Date
    Dec 2018
    List Price
    $55.95

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The Petrograd Workers in the Russian Revolution is a study of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and of the first months of Soviet power as viewed and experienced 'from below', by the industrial workers of Petrograd, Russia’s capital and the center of its revolutionary movement. Based largely on contemporary sources, it lets the workers speak for themselves, showing them as conscious, creative subjects of the revolutionary process, indeed, as the leading force of the revolution. In doing so, it sheds light on the nature and role of the Bolshevik party as an authentic workers’ organization that by the summer of 1917 had become the leading political force among workers.

Revised and expanded edition of two books published in English, namely: The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Regime (Macmillan, 1983) and The Petrograd Workers and the Soviet Seizure of Power (Macmillan, 1984).

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Contributor Notes

David Mandel, Ph.D. (1977), Columbia University, is a professor of political science and a labour activist. He has authored monographs and articles on politics and labour in revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union, and in post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

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