Kevin Murphy’s writing, based on exhaustive research, is the most thorough investigation to date on working-class life during the revolutionary era, reviving the memory of the incredible gains for liberty and equality that the 1917 revolution brought about.

    Appearance of the Bolshevik and the Menshevik Groups Within the Party (1901 - 1904) The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks in the Period of the Russo-Japanese War and the First Russian Revolution (1904 - 1907) The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks in the Period of the Stolypin Reaction. The Bolsheviks Constitute Themselves an Independent Marxist Party (1908 - 1912) The Bolshevik Party During the New Rise of the Working-Class Movement Before the First Imperialist War (1912 - 1914) The Bolshevik Party in the Period of the Imperialist War. The Second Revolution in Russia (1914 - March 1917) The Bolshevik Party in the Period of Preparation and Realization of the October Socialist Revolution (April 1917 - 1918) The Bolshevik Party in the Period of Foreign Military Intervention and Civil War (1918 - 1920) The Bolshevik Party in the Period of Transition to the Peaceful Work of Economic Restoration (1921 - 1925) The Bolshevik Party in the Struggle for the Socialist Industrialization of the Country (1926 - 1929) The Bolshevik Party in the Struggle for the Collectivization of Agriculture (1930 - 1934) The Bolshevik Party in the Struggle to Complete the Building of the Socialist Society. Introduction of the New Constitution (1935 - 1937)