"This beautifully written, serious work is of value to all who areinterested in our country's [Russia's] past." -- Genrikh Ioffe, MoscowNews

"This is a serious and mature book on a key event..." -- History

"The book in question is of exceptionalvalue to anyone who cannot read Russian and wishes to know just what happened in thefirst months of 1917." -- Scottish Slavonic Review

..".a classic of Soviet historical writing." -- Problems ofCommunism

Capturing the drama and human side of the revolution, Burdzhalov's comprehensive and meticulously researched history of the social andpolitical course of the February 1917 uprising in Petrograd challenged Stalinistorthodoxy in Soviet historical scholarship when it was published in Moscow in 1967, and Western historians have since characterized this as a landmark book.