Prelude to Revolution - The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising (Paperback, New edition)

..". an expert work... remarkable for its objectivity, judiciousness, andits sure handling of the available evidence." -- Political ScienceQuarterly

..". a fine piece of historical writing." -- SovietStudies

"An able and scholarly inquiry into the perplexingabortive Petrograd uprising of June and July 1917... a very interesting view ofrevolutionary action on the local level." -- Foreign Affairs

Firstpublished in 1968, this pioneering study of revolutionary events in Petrograd in thesummer of 1917 revised the established view of the Bolsheviks as a monolithic party.Rabinowitch documents how the party's pluralistic nature had crucial implicationsfor the outcome of the revolution in October.