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The Menshevik Leaders in the Russian Revolution Studies of the Harriman Institute Columbia University Founded as the Russian Institute in 1946, the W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union is the oldest research institution of its kind in the United States. The book series Studies of the Harriman Institute, begun in 1953, helps bring to a wider audience some of the work conducted under its auspices by professors, degree candidates and visiting fellows. The faculty of the Institute, without necessarily agreeing with the conclusions reached in these books, believes their publication will contribute to both scholarship and a greater public understanding of the Soviet Union. A list of the Studies appears at the back of the book. The Menshevik Leaders in the Russian Revolution: Social Realities and Political Strategies Z I V A G A L I L I P R I N C E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S Copyright © 1989 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Guildford, Surrey All Rights Reserved This book has been composed in Linotron Palatino Clothbound editions of Princeton University Press books are printed on add-free paper, and binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Paperbacks, although satisfactory for personal collections, are not usually suitable for library rebinding Printed in the United States of America by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Galili y Garda, Ziva. The Menshevik leaders in the Russian Revolution. (Studies of the Harriman Institute) Bibliography: p. Indudes index. 1. Sodalism—Soviet Union—History. 2. Petrogradskil sovet rabochikh i krasnoarmeiskikh deputatov—History. 3. Mensheviks. 4. Soviet Union—History—February Revolution, 1917. 1. Title. 11. Series. HX313.G36 1989 335'.00947 88-32504 isbn 0-691T05567-X (alk. paper) To Klara and Lasia Galili of Kibbutz Afikim Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Author's Note XV Abbreviations xvii Introduction 3 ONE The February Revolution and Its Leaders 13 TWO The Origins of Dual Power 45 THREE Dual Power Tested: Workers, Industrialists, and the Menshevik Mediators 69 FOUR Dual Power Reexamined: The Questions of the Economy, the War, and Political Power H5 FIVE Toward a Coalition Government 156 SIX Labor Relations under Coalition: Social Conflict and Economic Crisis 203 SEVEN The Menshevik Ministry of Labor: Socialists in a Coalition Government 255 EIGHT The Coalition in Crisis 294 NINE Revolutionary Defensism at an Impasse 338 Conclusions 396 Appendixes 401 Bibliography 417 Index 43i Studies of the Harriman Institute 449 VII Illustrations Unless otherwise indicated, the photographs are from the collec tions of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace and are reprinted with its permission. Facing page 3: Map of Petrograd in 1917 (Rutgers cartography) Following page 142: Social Democrats in exile, Irkutsk, 1914-1915 S. L. Vainshtein, L. O. Dan, and I. G. Tsereteli, Irkutsk, 1914-1915 A session of the Petrograd soviet in the early days of the revolu tion N. S. Chkheidze addressing sailors at the Tauride Palace, February 1917 Members of the Provisional Government at the burial of victims of the revolution A session of the All-Russian Conference of Soviets, April 3, 1917 (reprinted from Vserossiiskoe soveshchanie sovetov rabochikh i soldat- skikh deputatov, Moscow and Leningrad, 1927) P. A. Garvi, 1915 (reprinted by permission of the Project on Men shevik History) Iu. O. Martov and F. I. Dan, winter 1917-1918 (reprinted by per mission of the Project on Menshevik History) May Day demonstration in Petrograd, April 18, 1917 A. N. Potresov, 1925 I. G. Tsereteli as minister of post and telegraph, May 1917 Demonstration in Petrograd, June 18, 1917 Presidium of the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets IX
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