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The Mensheviks after October - Socialist Opposition and the Rise of the Bolshevik Dictatorship (Paperback, New edition)
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The Mensheviks after October - Socialist Opposition and the Rise of the Bolshevik Dictatorship (Paperback, New edition)
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In this major contribution to our understanding of the Russian
Revolution, Vladimir Brovkin provides the fullest account to date
of the Menshevik party during the first year of Soviet rule.
Focusing on the period from October 1917 through October
1918-months when the Soviet political system still permitted a
degree of electoral competition among political parties-he explores
the moderate socialists' opposition to the Bolsheviks. Why, he
asks, did the competition between the Bolsheviks and their
socialist opponents lead to a violent confrontation? And how did
their struggle shape the increasingly repressive political system
that emerged during this period? Brovkin examines several major
aspects of Menshevik party history in an effort to discover the
organization's place in the revolutionary upheavals that rocked
Russian society. He analyzes the debates within the party over the
best policy for opposing the Bolsheviks and describes the
Mensheviks' attempt to undermine their rivals by winning the
support of the working class. He depicts too the struggle for party
leadership and the changing composition of the membership. Finally,
Brovkin explores the Mensheviks' interactions with their sometime
ally the Socialist Revolutionary (SR) party and other opposition
groups and traces the increasingly confrontational competition
between the moderate socialists and the Bolsheviks, concluding his
account with the onslaught of the Red Terror and the first stage of
the civil war. Drawing on an impressive array of primary sources,
Brovkin convincingly shows that as the political struggle
progressed, the Mensheviks, together with the SRs, were seen as a
serious challenge to the Bolsheviks. He argues, further, that the
Bolsheviks' determination to counter this perceived threat led them
to undertake the repressive actions that both crushed their
opposition and transformed the Soviet government into a
dictatorship.
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