The Russian Democratic Party Yabloko: Opposition in a Managed Democracy Book

This is a good brief description of the fist proletarian revolution in human history and its immediate challenges. It's not series of sequential events it's an historical examination unfolding social contradictions and the class forces that these contradictions set in motion. Obviously Trotsky's three part 'History of the Russian Revolution' is better description of the October revolution and 'My Life'has a better description of the civil war and Brest-Litovsk. The thing that most struck me about this book is Trotsky's description of the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries and their formal approach to "ending the war" and power in genreal.... the limitation, lack of confidence in the proletariate, and inability to break with the liberal "experts". I haven't seen a better description of this disease anywhere.