The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd - Tapa blanda

By far the most important academic study of 1917 (Kevin Murphy)

...I know of no previous work which has so skillfully presented the fluctuating state of the mood of the 'masses' in the Russian capital in those fateful months. (The New York Review of Books)

The Bolsheviks Come To Power remains the best book on the 1917 Russian revolution–a seminal study of events that shaped history for decades and continues to do so even today. Both political and social history, it greatly expands on our detailed knowledge of the turbulent events of that year, while deepening and revising our understanding of the Bolshevik Party and the social factors that brought it to power. (Stephen F. Cohen, New York University)

'The best volume on the Russian Revolution in years ... What is so valuable about the book is that it undoes both rigid stereotypes: that the Leninism is inherently and always ‘correct’, pointing straight toward revolutionary triumph, and that of Leninism as always rigidly authoritarian, pointing straight toward dictatorship. A first-rate piece of work.' Irving Howe

'Alexander Rabinowitch ... has written what is perhaps the fullest and most reliable account of the Bolshevik seizure of power currently available in English ... Based on a solid command of the sources, it is scholarly and well documented yet accessible to the general reader, with its clear and vigorous style and interesting illustrations ... Should be read by every person interested in the Russian Revolution.' Paul Avrich, Russian Review

'The Bolsheviks Come To Power is one of the most important books on the Russian Revolution of 1917 to appear in many years. It is revisionist scholarship in the best and truest sense. Both political and social history, it greatly expands on our detailed knowledge of the turbulent events of that year, while deepening and revising our understanding of the Bolshevik Party and the social factors that brought it to power.' Stephen F. Cohen