Martin Miller is Professor of History and of Slavic Languages and Literature at Duke University and is the author of a number of books including Kropotkin (1976), The Russian Revolutionary Emigres, 1825-1870 (1986) and most recently, Freud and the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union (1997).

"Professor Miller has succeeded in putting together an admirable collection of important articles on the Russian revolutionary experience, and has linked them together with an excellent set of introductions." Reginald E. Zelnik, Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley "Miller has collected some of the best writing from a brilliant field." Times Higher Education Supplement "This collection of essays should prove a useful guide for students: the editor has provided a sound introduction to the book and gives a good introduction to the book and gives a good introduction to each peice, setting them each in their historiographical context. The book enables us to achieve a clear understanding of the state of the debate that surrounds 1917 as we enter the twenty-first century" Peter Waldron, University of Sunderland "[It] will be of great use to all those teaching the history of Revolutionary Russia...Miller has brough together some of the best journal articals on 1917." Geoffrey Swain, University of the West of England - Revoltuionary Russia, Vol. 15/June 2002

• Acknowledgments. Editor's Introduction: The Russian Revolution at the Millennium: Martin Miller.Part I: On the Eve: Toward Revolution:.1. The Battleground: Edward Acton.Part II: Parties, Movements and Personalities in the Revolutions of 1917:.Introduction: Martin Miller.2. Russia's Second Revolution: The February 1917 Uprising in Petrograd: E. N. Burdzhalov.3. The Russian Revolution of 1917 and its Language in the Village: Orlando Figes.4. The Bolsheviks come to Power: Alexander Rabinowitch.Part III: Issues of Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Revolution:.Introduction: Martin Miller.5. Russian Labor and Bolshevik Power: Social Dimensions of Protest after October: William Rosenberg.6. Ascribing Class: The Construction of Social Identity in Soviet Russia: Sheila Fitzpatrick.7. Bolshevik Women: Barbara Evans Clements.8. State Building and Nation-Making: The Soviet Experience: Ronald G. Suny.Part IV: Conclusions and Prospects: .9. Writing the History of the Russian Revolution after the Fall of Communism: Steve Smith.Index.

Martin Miller is Professor of History and of Slavic Languages and Literature at Duke University and is the author of a number of books including Kropotkin (1976), The Russian Revolutionary Emigres, 1825-1870 (1986) and most recently, Freud and the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union (1997).

"Professor Miller has succeeded in putting together an admirable collection of important articles on the Russian revolutionary experience, and has linked them together with an excellent set of introductions." Reginald E. Zelnik, Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley "Miller has collected some of the best writing from a brilliant field." Times Higher Education Supplement "This collection of essays should prove a useful guide for students: the editor has provided a sound introduction to the book and gives a good introduction to the book and gives a good introduction to each peice, setting them each in their historiographical context. The book enables us to achieve a clear understanding of the state of the debate that surrounds 1917 as we enter the twenty-first century" Peter Waldron, University of Sunderland "[It] will be of great use to all those teaching the history of Revolutionary Russia...Miller has brough together some of the best journal articals on 1917." Geoffrey Swain, University of the West of England - Revoltuionary Russia, Vol. 15/June 2002

• Acknowledgments. Editor's Introduction: The Russian Revolution at the Millennium: Martin Miller.Part I: On the Eve: Toward Revolution:.1. The Battleground: Edward Acton.Part II: Parties, Movements and Personalities in the Revolutions of 1917:.Introduction: Martin Miller.2. Russia's Second Revolution: The February 1917 Uprising in Petrograd: E. N. Burdzhalov.3. The Russian Revolution of 1917 and its Language in the Village: Orlando Figes.4. The Bolsheviks come to Power: Alexander Rabinowitch.Part III: Issues of Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Revolution:.Introduction: Martin Miller.5. Russian Labor and Bolshevik Power: Social Dimensions of Protest after October: William Rosenberg.6. Ascribing Class: The Construction of Social Identity in Soviet Russia: Sheila Fitzpatrick.7. Bolshevik Women: Barbara Evans Clements.8. State Building and Nation-Making: The Soviet Experience: Ronald G. Suny.Part IV: Conclusions and Prospects: .9. Writing the History of the Russian Revolution after the Fall of Communism: Steve Smith.Index.