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14th April 2015, 15:11
https://archive.org/details/TheGreatOctoberSocialistRevolution

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Discusses the period leading up to the revolution as well as the first few months afterwards.

Chapters are as follows:

SECTION ONE
On the Road to the Socialist Revolution
Chapter One. The Situation After the Overthrow of the Autocracy
1. Dual Power Emerges
2. The Proletariat in the Struggle for the Revolution's Further Development
3. Anti-Popular Policies of the Provisional Government
4. The Leninist Course Towards the Socialist Revolution
Chapter Two. The Bolsheviks' Bid for Popular Support During the Period of Dual Power
1. The April Demonstration
2. The First Coalition Government
3. The Work of the Bolsheviks Among the People After the April Conference of the RSDLP(B)
4. 1st All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. The June Demonstration
5. End of Dual Power
Chapter Three. The Revolutionary Crisis Mounts
1. Course Towards an Armed Uprising
2. The Kornilov Counter-Revolutionary Rising Is Crushed
3. Economic Dislocation
4. Revolutionary Upswing in the Autumn of 1917
5. Further Bolshevisation of the Soviets
6. The Crisis Comes to a Head
Chapter Four. Preparations for the Armed Uprising
SECTION TWO
The Great October Socialist Revolution Triumphs. Soviet Power Is Established.
Chapter Five. The Provisional Government Is Deposed. 2nd All-Russia Congress of Soviets
1. Victorious Armed Uprising in Petrograd
2. 2nd All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
3. Rout of the Kerensky-Krasnov Counter-Revolutionary Mutiny
Chapter Six. Soviet Power Is Established in Moscow
Chapter Seven. The Socialist Revolution Triumphs in the Army and Throughout the Country
1. Victory of the Revolution at the Fronts
2. Power Is Established Throughout Russia
SECTION THREE
The Building of the Soviet State. Revolutionary Changes
1. A Central State Apparatus Is Set Up
2. Abolition of the Bourgeois Organs of Coercion. Creation of an Apparatus for the Protection of the Proletarian State
3. The Building and Initial Steps of the Organs of Soviet Power in the Localities
Chapter Nine. The First Economic and Cultural Reforms
1. The Introduction of the Socialist Mode of Production in Industry
2. Implementation of the Decree on Land
3. First Reforms in Culture
Chapter Ten. Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly. 3rd All-Russia Congress of Soviets
Chapter Eleven. The Soviet Republic's Struggle for Withdrawal from the War. The Brest Peace Treaty
Chapter Twelve. The Building of the Foundations of a Socialist Economy
Chapter Thirteen. Imperialists Attack the Soviet Republic. 5th All-Russia Congress of Soviets
Chapter Fourteen. The Socialist Revolution Unfolds in the Countryside
Chapter Fifteen. International Significance of the Great October Socialist Revolution