Bread and Justice

This is a study of Petrograd in the period immediately following the Russian Revolution. Formerly the imperial capital, St. Petersurg, in the years after 1917 Petrograd became a revolutionary citadel. McAuley's political and social history throws into relief the interplay of the factors that contributed to the formation of the new soviet state. Her detailed account of everyday life in the city provides new insights into the progress of the Russian Revolution and the establishment, in 1921, of the Leninist political order.