Prelude to Revolution

<p> . . . an expert work . . . remarkable for its objectivity judiciousness and its sure handling of the available evidence. --Political Science Quarterly<br /><br /> . . . a fine piece of historical writing. --Soviet Studies<br /><br />An able and scholarly inquiry into the perplexing abortive Petrograd uprising of June and July 1917 . . . a very interesting view of revolutionary action on the local level. --Foreign Affairs<br /><br />First published in 1968 this pioneering study of revolutionary events in Petrograd in the summer of 1917 revised the established view of the Bolsheviks as a monolithic party. Rabinowitch documents how the party's pluralistic nature had crucial implications for the outcome of the revolution in October.</p>