L. "Science". 1969. 396 p. The print run is 2,400. Price 1 rub. 92 kopecks. A few years ago, it was stated that there was no major generalizing work devoted to the period of the triumphal march of the Soviet government, and its creation was put forward as a priority task. 1 But the appearance of such a study is hardly realistic without the development of certain important problems of this period, the only known outcome of which it can be. This is exactly the direction in which work has been carried out in recent years .2 The book under consideration by A. L. Freiman, Doctor of Historical Sciences, also serves to solve this problem. It covers the revolutionary history of Petrograd during the triumphal march of Soviet power. The author has worked on the history of Petrograd in 1917-1918 before 3 . From the pages of his new book, the reader sees revolutionary Petrograd in the turbulent post-October months - its proletariat and the Red Guard, the largest Bolshevik party organization, hardened in the struggle; the forces that opposed the revolution are also shown. The author collected a lot of information scattered in various publications, used the documents of, perhaps, all the main archives - central and Leningrad, which contain materials on this topic. But he is far from thinking that the problems of studying the revolutionary history of Petrograd during the first months of Soviet power are fully solved in the book, and considers his work only as an attempt to take a definite step towards creating a generalizing work. His monograph is in line with the trend in the study of the history of the October Revolution and the Civil War, which is characterized by the rejection of selective use of known facts and documents in order to support general, sometimes speculative statements, and which consistently lays an increasingly solid factual foundation for new achievements in covering the complex and glorious revolutionary era. At the same time, the material available in the bo ... Read more