`An important and original book. Dealing with the period of the Revolution, Civil War, and the beginning of the New Economic Policy, Dr Burbank presents an admirable summary and analysis of the vast body of polemical literature inspired by the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. It raises fundamental and provocative questions about the Russian Revolution.' Professor Paul Avrich, City University of New York

`An important and original book. Dealing with the period of the Revolution, Civil War, and the beginning of the New Economic Policy, Dr Burbank presents an admirable summary and analysis of the vast body of polemical literature inspired by the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. It raises fundamental and provocative questions about the Russian Revolution.' Professor Paul Avrich, City University of New York