The Origin of the Communist Autocracy [electronic resource] : Political Opposition in the Soviet State First Phase · 1917-1922

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Political Background....Pages 1-16 The February Revolution....Pages 17-36 The Bolsheviks in Action....Pages 37-51 The October Revolution....Pages 52-68 The Consolidation of Power....Pages 69-88 The Peace of Brest-Litovsk....Pages 89-110 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 The Left Socialist Revolutionaries....Pages 111-129 Left Communism....Pages 130-146 The Socialist Revolutionaries....Pages 147-169 The Legal Opposition the Background....Pages 170-189 The Legal Opposition the Mensheviks....Pages 190-209 Front Matter....Pages 211-211 Early Dissensions in the Communist Party....Pages 211-234 The Military Opposition....Pages 235-252 The Beginning of the Crisis....Pages 253-272 Open Dissension in the Central Committee....Pages 273-295 The Kronstadt Revolt and the New Economic Policy....Pages 296-313 ‘Putting the Lid on Opposition’....Pages 314-342 Front Matter....Pages 343-343 Leninism Triumphant....Pages 343-361 Back Matter....Pages 363-397