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1. 1. The Bolsheviks In Power

   The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd

   

   A detailed account of the first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd, showing how revolutionary leaders sought to consolidate power amid war, economic collapse, and social unrest. It examines internal party struggles, uneasy alliances with workers and soldiers, the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, the rise of coercive instruments like the Cheka, and the fraught balance between local initiative and centralization. The narrative emphasizes improvisation and pragmatic compromise in the early months, followed by a steady hardening of authoritarian control as civil conflict intensified.

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2. 2. Prelude To Revolution

   The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising

   

   A scholarly account of the July 1917 upheaval in Petrograd, tracing how tensions among workers, soldiers, and sailors intersected with the revolutionary party’s evolving strategy, internal disagreements, and imperfect command over its base to produce a volatile, premature confrontation with the Provisional Government. Drawing on extensive archival research, it disentangles the roles of spontaneity and organization, reveals factional debates over tactics and timing, and situates the episode within the broader collapse of wartime authority, ultimately showing how lessons from the failed uprising shaped the movement’s approach to power later that year.

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