The Russian Revolution Author:Robert V. Daniels In The Russian Revolution, Robert V. Daniels presents key eye-witness reports, personal memoirs, and official statements and documents of Russians involved at every level of the revolution-including Nicholas II's abdication manifesto, the memoirs of American Ambassador David R. Francis and Provisional Prime Minister Kerensky, and Lenin's "April ... more »Theses." These accounts bring to life a chain of events that began when the throne of Tsar Nicholas II was toppled, continued in the ineffectual Provisional Government, and culminated in the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917. Many of these selections are published here for the first time in English, including eye-witness accounts from both sides in the "siege" of the Winter Palace. All recount crucial public of behind-the-scenes events to give the reader a sense of the intense emotional and ideological commitments that marked all sides in this life and death struggle for political supremacy.« less