The October Revolution

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Contents Foreword Preface Translator's Notes PART ONE. Was the October Revolution Inevitable? 1. The Various Points of View: Social Revolution and the Role of the Individual 2. On the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution 3. On the October Socialist Revolution 4. Spontaneity and Organization in the Actions of the Masses in 1917 PART TWO. Was the October Revolution Premature? 5. Is a “Premature” Revolution Possible? 6. Socialist Revolution in Russia and the Position of the Mensheviks and SRs 7. The Position of the Bolsheviks PART THREE. The First Hundred Days After the October Revolution 8. The First Few Weeks After the Revolution 9. The Convening and Dispersal of the Constituent Assembly 10. The Economic Situation in the RSFSR in January and February 1918 PART FOUR. The Difficult Spring of 1918 11. The Program of Economic Construction in Soviet Russia After Brest 12. The Masses Turn Away from the Bolsheviks 13. The Poor Peasants' Committees and the Beginning of the Civil War Some Conclusions Author’s Notes Glossary Index