The Mensheviks After October: Socialist Opposition and the Rise of the Bolshevik Dictatorship

Vladimir N. Brovkin. Cornell University Press, $18.95 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-8014-9976-0

Brovkin examines the revolutionary period from October 1917 through October 1918 to show how the Mensheviks and other opposition groups including the Socialist Revolutionary party threatened the Bolsheviks. (Sept.)no PW rev.

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