Liberals in the Russian Revolution: The Constitutional Democratic Party, 1917-1921 (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Rosenberg, William G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691656770 ISBN 13: 9780691656779

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691656770
• ISBN 13: 9780691656779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560