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Acton, Edward, Cheniaev, Vladimir, and Rosenberg, William G., eds. Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921. London: Hodder Arnold, 1997. Well-researched articles on most aspects of the revolution.

Clements, Barbara Evans. Bolshevik Women. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Women who made revolution, and the obstacles they met within the victorious party.

Daniels, Robert V. Red October: The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Boston: Beacon, 1984. Chronology of events, from April to October, with background information and analysis.

Figes, Orlando. Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution, 1917-1921. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Detailed account of peasant revolution.

Figes, Orlando. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924. London: Jonathan Cape, 1996. Vivid, exciting account of the revolution in its wider historical sweep.

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1994. Brief but detailed summary.

Got’e, I. V., trans. Emmons, T. Time of Troubles: The Diary of Iurii Vladimirovich Got’e, Moscow, July 8 1917 to July 23, 1922. Princeton University Press, 1992. A Moscow history professor observes the revolution with emotion and wit.

Melancon, Michael. The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Russian Anti-War Movement, 1914-1917. Ohio State University Press, 1991.

Pipes, Richard. Russian Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Well-known “liberal” account of revolution.

Rabinowitch, Alexander. The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. London: Pluto Press, 2004. A classic “revisionist” account of the seizure of power.

Raleigh, Donald J. Revolution on the Volga: 1917 in Saratov. Cornell University Press, 1986. The revolution comes to a provincial Russian city.

Reed, John. Ten Days That Shook the World. London: Penguin, 1990. Eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution by an American communist; first published in 1919.

Shukman, Harold. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Articles on vast range of relevant questions, with a useful biographical section.

Steinberg, Mark D. Voices of Revolution: 1917. Yale University Press, 2002. Fascinating collection of documents about ordinary people’s demands in 1917, translated from the Russian archives.

Wade, Rex A. The Russian Revolution, 1917. Cambridge University Press, 2000. A carefully argued account of the major events of the revolutionary year, with seldom-seen photographs and useful chronology.

Wildman, Allan K. The End of the Russian Imperial Army. Princeton University Press, 1980-1987. Military events in Russia during the reign of Nicholas II and after the Revolution as representing Russian life.