List of Tables and Maps
Glossary
Introduction
1 Types of Political Culture in the Industrial Working-Class of Petrograd
 The Skilled Workers
 Unskilled Workers
 The ‘Worker Aristocracy’
 The Generational Factor
2 The Social Composition of the Industrial Working Class of Petrograd and its Districts
 The Social Composition of Petrograd’s Districts
 The Vyborg District
 Petergof and Narva Districts
 Vasilevskii ostrov
 Petrograd District
 Moskovskaya zastava
 Nevskii-Obukhovskii District
 Kolomna District
 Second City District
 First City District
 Rozhdestvenskii District
 Okhta and Porokhovskii Districts
3 The Honeymoon Period – From the February to the April Days
 The Labour Movement during the War
 The February Revolution – The Birth of Dual Power
 Census Society
 Dual Power in Light of Attitudes before the Revolution
 Why Dual Power?
4 The February Revolution in the Factories
 The Eight-Hour Day
 Wages
 The Press Campaign against ‘Worker Egoism’
 Worker-Management Relations: ‘Democratisation of Factory Life’
 Purge of the Factory Administrations
 The Factory Committees
5 From the April to the July Days
 The April Days
 The First Coalition Government
 The Break with Census Society
 Underlying Causes of the Shift to Soviet Power
6 The Struggle for Power in the Factories in April–June
7 The July Days
 The Workers and the Menshevik-SR Soviet Majority
 The July Days
 Reaction Unleashed
8 Rethinking the Revolution: Revolutionary Democracy or Proletarian Dictatorship?
 Census Society on the Offensive
 Final Rejection of ‘Conciliationism’
 The Question of ‘Revolutionary Democracy’
9 From the Kornilov Uprising to the Eve of October
 The Kornilov Uprising
 The Democratic Conference
 Setting Course for Soviet Power
10 Class Struggle in the Factories – September–October
 The Factory Committees under Attack
 The Struggle for Production – Workers’ Control Checked
 From Workers’ Control and towards Workers’ Management
 Factory Committees under Pressure ‘from Below’
 The Struggle for Production and the Question of State Power
 Quiet on the Wage Front
11 On the Eve
12 The October Revolution and the End of ‘Revolutionary Democracy’
 Workers’ Attitudes towards the Insurrection
 The Question of a ‘Homogeneous Socialist Government’
 Unity from Below
13 The Constituent Assembly and the Emergence of a Worker Opposition
 The Elections
 Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly
 The Chernorabochie and the Upsurge of Anarchist Influence
 The Lines Harden
14 The October Revolution in the Factories
 ‘Active’ or ‘Passive’ Control?
 Towards Nationalisation
 Management in Nationalised Enterprises
15 Summon Up Every Last Ounce of Strength or Accept Defeat!
 Dispersal of Petrograd’s Working Class
 The ‘Obscene Peace’
 Rise and Failure of the Opposition
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index