The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and The Civil Wars

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; viii,333pp. Trace of rubbing to lower board edges, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with just a hint of sunning to spine. Volume in which Eastern and Western scholars "draw on recently opened archives to challenge the commonly held view that the Bolsheviks enjoyed widespread support and that their early history was simply a march toward inevitable victory. They show instead that during this period Russian society was at war within itself ad with the Bolsheviks" (from front flap).