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The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917 : the end of the tsarist regime and the birth of dual power /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, 1941- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Edition:Revised, enlarged, and reinterpreted edition.
Series:Historical materialism book series ; 149.
Subjects:
Russia > History > February Revolution, 1917.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Russia and the First World War
  • Russia enters the war
  • The political crisis of the summer 1915
  • Deepening gulf: the government and the liberals, 1916
  • Petrograd during the war
  • The war and the workers
  • The war and the revolutionary parties
  • Part II. On the eve
  • The tsar, the tsarina, and the government
  • The security of Petrograd
  • The liberal opposition
  • The liberals, conspiracies, and the freemasons
  • The workers and the revolutionary parties
  • Part III. The uprising
  • The beginning: February 23
  • The second day: February 24
  • The general strike: February 25
  • Bloody Sunday: February 26
  • The insurrection, February 27
  • Part IV. The Petrograd Soviet and the Duma Committee
  • The formation of the Petrograd Soviet
  • The formation of the Duma Committee
  • The first steps of the Duma Committee
  • The Petrograd Soviet and the masses
  • The 'transfer' of power
  • Part V. The abdication of Nicholas II
  • Nicholas II and the revolution
  • The Duma Committee and the monarchy
  • The Stavka and counterrevolutionary attempts
  • The abdication of Nicholas II
  • The Duma Committee's delegates
  • Part VI. The formation of the Provisional Government and the birth of dual power
  • The formation of the Provisional Government
  • Grand Duke Mikhail Aleksandrovich's renunciation of the throne
  • The Provisional Government, the State Duma, and the birth of dual power
  • Conclusion.