The Soviet Revolution 1917-1938 Routledge Library Editions: The Russian Revolution Series

This history, originally published in 1962, by the then lone remaining figure in the leadership of the Russian Social Democratic Party, is an important contribution to the understanding of the Soviet October Revolution of 1917. It covers in detail the period from the February revolution of 1917 until the outbreak of the Second World War, passing through the phases of the October Revolution, the Peace of Brest-Litovsk, the Civil War, the struggle for the leadership of the party and the triumph of Stalin.

1. The War and the February Revolution 2. The Debate Over Peace Aims, March-April 1917 3. The Disintegration of the February Revolution 4. The October Revolution 5. Point of No Return 6. From Brest-Litovsk to Civil War 7. The Civil War 8. The Revolt Against War Communism 9. Lenin and Marxism 10. Lenin and the Weimar Republic 11. The Comintern 12. Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin 13. Soviet ‘Normalcy’: Russia in the Mid-Twenties 14. The Birth of the General Line 15. The Great Leap 16. The Changing International Situation 17. The Totalitarian Spiral 18. The Road to the Second World War