The Mensheviks after OctoberIn this major contribution to our understanding of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Brovkin provides the fullest account to date of the Menshevik party during the first year of Soviet rule. Focusing on the period from October 1917 through October 1918months when the Soviet political system still permitted a degree of electoral competition among political partieshe explores the moderate socialists' opposition to the Bolsheviks. Why, he asks, did the