" . an expert work . remarkable for its objectivity, judiciousness, and its sure handling of the available evidence." --Political Science Quarterly " . a fine piece of historical writing." --Soviet Studies "An able and scholarly inquiry into the perplexing abortive Petrograd uprising of June and July 1917 . a very interesting view of revolutionary action on the local level." --Foreign Affairs First published in 1968, this pioneering study of revolutionary events in Petrograd in the summer of 1917 revised the established view of the Bolsheviks as a monolithic party.

Rabinowitch documents how the party's pluralistic nature had crucial implications for the outcome of the revolution in October.