Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Robert Service

   Pages 1-11

3. The Peasants

   • Maureen Perrie

   Pages 12-34

4. The Non-Russian Nationalities

   • Stephen Jones

   Pages 35-63

5. The Urban Middle Classes

   • Howard White

   Pages 64-85

6. The Cultural Intelligentsia

   • Christopher Read

   Pages 86-102

7. Soldiers and Sailors

   • Evan Mawdsley

   Pages 103-119

8. The Landowners

   • John Channon

   Pages 120-146

9. The Industrial Workers

   • Robert Service

   Pages 147-166

10. Epilogue

    • Edward Acton

    Pages 167-189

11. Back Matter

    Pages 190-199

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The Russian Revolution of 1917 was an event of the greatest importance, but the social groups which were crucial to its development and outcome have been little written about. This book brings together a number of prominent British researchers whose work focusses on the connections among politics, social aspirations and economics, and offers new insights into the reasons why, only months after the last tsar fell from power in February 1917, it was the Bolsheviks who seized control and established a communist regime.

• Bolsheviks
• communism
• revolution
• Russia

• School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, UK

  Robert Service

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