A. Rabinowitch. The Bolsheviks in Power.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Prologue

The Bolsheviks and the October Revolution in Petrograd

Part 1

The Defeat of the Moderates

1 – Forming a Government

2 – Rebels into Rulers

3 – Gathering Forces

4 – The Fate of the Constituent Assembly

Part 2

War or Peace?

5 – Fighting Lenin

6 – “The Socialist Fatherland Is in Danger”

7 – An Obscene Peace

Part 3

Soviet Power on the Brink

8 – A Turbulent Spring

9 – Continuing Crises

10 – The Northern Commune and the Bolshevik-Left SR Alliance

11 – The Suicide of the Left SRs

Part 4

Celebration amid Terror

12 – The Road to “Red Terror”

13 – The Red Terror in Petrograd

14 – Celebrating “The Greatest Event in the History of the World”

15 – Price of Survival

CHRONOLOGY OF KEY EVENTS