Liberals in the Russian Revolution : : The Constitutional Democratic Party, 1917-1921 / / William G. Rosenberg.

Although many Russians thought that the Constitutional Democrats, or Kadets, would be the party that would lead them through the Russian Revolution into the ranks of the Western European democracies, the Kadets were easily crushed by the Bolsheviks in the struggle for power. How the Kadets responded...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
©1974
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5505
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Acknowledgments --
Abbreviations of frequently cited journals --
Contents --
List of tables and maps --
Transliteration and Dates --
Introduction --
PART ONE. KADETS BEFORE THE REVOLUTION --
ONE. Program, Organization, and Politics --
PART TWO. 1917 --
TWO. The Transfer of Power --
THREE. Ministers, Party, and Country --
FOUR. Dual Authority and Partisanship: The April Crisis and Its Aftermath --
FIVE. The Politics of "State Consciousness" in May and June --
Six. The July "Interregnum" --
SEVEN. Kadets and Kornilov --
EIGHT. Concessions and Conflicts in the Last Weeks of the Provisional Regime --
PART THREE. THE CIVIL WAR --
NINE. The Agony of Political Irrelevance: Kadets in Moscow and Petrograd after October --
TEN. Conflicting Liberal Tactics: Kadets in the Ukraine and South Russia, 1918 --
ELEVEN. First Months with Denikin: The Struggle for Balance --
TWELVE. A "Model Solution" to the Problem of Power: The Kadet Government in the Crimea --
THIRTEEN. Kadets in Siberia: The Tactics of "State Revolution" --
FOURTEEN. The End of Party Efforts in Siberia and South Russia --
PART FOUR. EPILOGUE: THE EMIGRATION --
FIFTEEN. Kadets in Emigration, 1920-1921 --
SIXTEEN. Parting of the Ways --
Bibliography --
Index --
STUDIES OF THE RUSSIAN INSTITUTE
Summary:Although many Russians thought that the Constitutional Democrats, or Kadets, would be the party that would lead them through the Russian Revolution into the ranks of the Western European democracies, the Kadets were easily crushed by the Bolsheviks in the struggle for power. How the Kadets responded to the events of the revolution and failed at the time of the party's greatest crisis is the subject of William G. Rosenberg's study.As political history, the book examines the values, programs, organization, and tactices of Russia's most priminent liberal party from 1917 to 1921. As a study of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, it probes the strengths and weaknesses of the one political group whose politices did more to influence the outcome of events that any other political organization except the Bolsheviks.Based largely on party journals and emigre archives, the book focuses not only on the role of the Kadets in the revolution, but also on the broader issue of the relationship of Russiasn liberal politics to revolutionary social forces.William G. Rosenberg is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.Originally published in 1974.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780691198460
9783110442496
DOI:10.1515/9780691198460?locatt=mode:legacy
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Statement of Responsibility: William G. Rosenberg.