Author of the only full-length eyewitness account of the 1917 Revolution, Sukhanov was a key figure in the first revolutionary Government. His seven-volume book, first published in 1922, was suppressed under Stalin. This reissue of the abridged version is, as the editor's preface points out, one of the few things written about this most dramatic and momentous event, which actually has the smell of life, and gives us a feeling for the personalities, the emotions, and the play of ideas of the whole revolutionary period."

Originally published in 1984.

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Autorentext

Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov

Inhalt

FrontMatter,
PREFACE,
CONTENTS,
ILLUSTRATIONS,
INTRODUCTION,
Part I. THE COLLAPSE OF THE TSARIST REGIME AND THE FORMATION OF THE FIRST REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT, February 23rd-March 2nd, 1917,
Part II. THE UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT, March 3rd-April 3rd,
Part III. THE FORMATION OF A UNITED FRONT OF THE BIG AND PETTY BOURGEOISIE, April 3rd-May 5th,
Part IV. THE TRIUMPH OF THE REACTION, May 6th-July 8th,
Part V. [COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND THE DISSOLUTION OF THE DEMOCRACY], July 8th-October 20th,
Part VI. THE OCTOBER INSURRECTION October 3rd-November 1st,
INDEX,