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Intro -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- KRONROD'S POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOCIALISM -- KRONROD ON SOCIALISM, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND DEMOCRACY -- KRONROD'S CRITIQUE OF MARKETLESS SOCIALISM AND OF SO‐CALLED "MARKET SOCIALISM" -- KRONROD'S ANALYSIS OF THE FAILURES OF THE SOVIET ECONOMY -- Yakov Kronrod: SOCIO‐OLIGARCHISM-THE PSEUDO‐SOCIALISM OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- BY WAY OF CONCLUSION -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY KRONROD.

The Petrograd Workers in the Russian Revolution is a study of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and of the first months of Soviet power as viewed and experienced 'from below', by the industrial workers of Petrograd, Russia's capital and the centre of its revolutionary movement. Based largely on contemporary sources, it lets the workers speak for themselves, showing them as conscious, creative subjects of the revolutionary process, indeed, as the leading force of the revolution. In doing so, it sheds light on the nature and role of the Bolshevik party as an authentic workers' organization that by the summer of 1917 had become the leading political force among workers. Revised and expanded edition of two books published in English, namely: The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Regime (Macmillan, 1983) and The Petrograd Workers and the Soviet Seizure of Power (Macmillan, 1984).

This article examines the attitude of the "democratic," left-leaning intelligentsia to the revolutions of 1917. It documents and analyzes the latter's growing alienation from the popular classes, the workers and peasants, over the course of 1917. That alienation is explained on the background of the deepening class polarization of Russia society, a process that can be traced back to the Revolution of 1905 and even earlier, but which reached its apogee in 1917 in the October Revolution. That revolution is revealed as an exclusively plebeian affair to which the left-leaning intelligentsia was intensely hostile, a situation that deeply worried worker activists. ; Este artigo examina a atitude da intelligentsia "democrática", de orientação de esquerda, para com as revoluções de 1917. Documenta e analisa sua crescente alienação posterior em relação às classes populares, operários e camponeses, ao longo de 1917. Essa alienação é explicada no marco do aprofundamento da polarização da sociedade russa, um processo cujas raízes podem ser encontradas na revolução de 1905, e até mesmo antes dela, mas que alcançou seu ápice em 1917, na Revolução de Outubro. Essa revolução se revelou um evento exclusivamente plebeu, diante do qual a intelligentsia de orientação de esquerda foi bastante hostil, situação esta que preocupou profundamente os ativistas operários.

Este artigo discute a questão da legitimidade histórica da Revolução de Outubro. Foi ela um ato arbitrário, realizado à revelia do povo, que desviou a Rússia de sua via normal de desenvol-vimento em direção a uma democracia liberal? Essa é a posição dominante hoje na historiografia, defendida tam-bém pelo governo russo. Ou, ao con-trário, foi uma revolução popular, com raízes profundas na história e na socie-dade russa? ; This article discusses the question of the historical legitimacy of the October Revolution. Was it an ar-bitrary act carried out behind the back of the people and that diverted Russia from its normal path of development toward a liberal democracy? That is the dominant position today in the histo-riography, one also supported by the Russian government. Or was rather it a popular revolution, with deep roots in Russian history and society?