Synopses & Reviews
Nikolai Sukhanov stood at the center of the Russian Revolution as a founding member and ideologist of the Petrograd Soviet and as an editor of the leading opposition newspaper. His eyewitness memoir of the revolution includes Lenin, Trotsky, Martov, Chernov, Tsereteli, and other important figures. Found guilty at the show-trial of 1931 and victim of a trumped-up charge of spying for Germany, he was shot in 1940 and rehabilitated in 1992. This book chronicles his life against the backrop of the Russian Revolution.
Review
"This important work will be essential reading for all serious students of the Russian revolution."--James D. White, Slavic Review
[This] is a splendid piece of work. . . the message comes through that Sukhanov, much maligned and neglected for decades, was in fact one of the great moral forces in both the history and historiography of the Russian Revolution. —Robert Service
About the Author
Israel Getzler is Professor Emeritus, Department of Russian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Table of Contents
Introduction * Champion of the Russian Village Commune * Ideologist of the February Revolution * Chronicler of Russia's Democratic Revolution * In Opposition to the Bolshevik "Jacobin" Dictatorship * Knight Errant of the
Obshchina * Sukhanov at the Menshevik Trial