This powerful book takes a close look at the relationship between the Bolshevik party and the democratic aspirations of rank-and-file workers in Moscow in the crucial early years of the Russian revolution. Simon Pirani’s prodigious utilization of local party and secret police archives allows him to show how the Bolshevik party leadership systematically destroyed democratic voices on the shop floor: the party offered a "social contract" that promised improving standards of living in exchange for the loss of a political voice.

The Russian Revolution

This provocative and eminently readable work looks at the many upheavals of the Russian Revolution as successive stages in a single process. Focusing on the Russian Revolution in its widest sense, Fitzpatrick covers not only the events of 1917 and what preceded them, but the nature of the social transformation brought about by the Bolsheviks after they took power. Making use of a huge amount of previously secret information in Soviet archives and unpublished memoirs, this detailed chronology recounts each monumental event ...

The Origins of the Russian Revolution, 1861-1917

Alan Wood provides a concise introduction to the Russian Revolution and its origins dating back to the emancipation of the Russian peasant serfs in 1861. The third edition of this successful pamphlet brings the historiography up to date to include the multitude of research in the last ten years that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening up of the state archives.

347 Woodworking Patterns

A Bound Set of Popular Woodworking Patterns. This pattern book is filled with things for everyone.  There are 347 patterns within this one volume. Bears Bunnies Bathroom MORE! in the Crafts

Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire

"Anyone wishing to understand the 'state of the field' in Imperial Russian history would do well to start with this collection." -- Theodore W. Weeks, H-Net Reviews