Lenin and the Mensheviks: The Persecution of Socialists under Bolshevism

by Vera Broido

Overview

This book focuses on the persecution of the Mensheviks and other Russian socialists and Anarchists, whose fate was much the same. It is about the years of wars and upheavals, the enforced migrations and how the Mensheviks had managed to keep a social community and a political culture in being.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367005610
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/07/2019
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface — Bolshevism versus Menshevism — The February Revolution and the October Coup — The Mensheviks after the October Coup — The Terror — Anti-Bolshevik Revolts and the Civil War — The Harassment of Socialists — The Bolshevik Government Against Workers and Peasants — The Destruction of Trade Unions, Cooperatives and Soviets — Prisons, Camps, Exile — A Chronicle of Persecution and Resistance — The Trial of the Right SRs — The ‘Menshevik’ Trial of March 1931