The Sickle Under the Hammer

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From the book "With telling detail, the book depicts the dissensions and the weaknesses of leadership that resulted in the Socialist Revolutionary movement's losing out to its rivals, even though it was the largest political group among those raised to power by the February Revolution of 1917. The author's analysis goes far to explain the paradox of the seizure and retention of power in a primarily peasant, rural land by the Bolsheviks - a proletarian, urban party.