"All Power to the Soviets" The Bolsheviks Take Power

• Published in: Revolutionary Russia pp. 211 - 242
• Main Author: Wade, Rex A.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2004
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Kornilov Affair; Moderate Socialist Leaders; Petrograd Garrison; Bolshevik Central Committee; Winter Palace; Petrograd Soviet; Soviet Power; Bolshevik Party; pro-Soviet Forces; July Days; Garrison Soldiers; Left SRs; Red Guards; Petersburg Committee; SR Party; Bolshevik Intentions; Broad Socialist Coalition; Provisional Government; Young Men; Armed Seizure; Army Committees; Revolutionary Defensism; Left SR; MRC

This selection looks at the October Revolution in the broader political and social-economic context that created the rising demand for "all power to the soviets" and made a new revolution increasingly probable by October. In this respect it might be contrasted to White's detailed exam...