Beschreibung:

A major contribution to the historiography of the world in the 20th
century, The Bolsheviks in Power focuses on the fateful first year of
Soviet rule in Petrograd. It examines events that profoundly shaped the
Soviet political system that endured through most of the 20th century.
Drawing largely from previously inaccessible Soviet archives, it
demolishes standard interpretations of the origins of Soviet
authoritarianism by demonstrating that the Soviet system evolved ad hoc
as the Bolsheviks struggled to retain political power amid spiraling
political, social, economic, and military crises. The book covers issues
such as the rapid fall of influential moderate Bolsheviks, the
formation of the dreaded Cheka, the dissolution of the Constituent
Assembly, the Red Terror, the national government's flight to Moscow,
and the subsequent rivalry between Russia's new and old capitals.