The dictatorship of the democracy'? The Council of People's Commissars as Bolshevik-Left Socialist Revolutionary coalition government, December 1917-March 1918

The Bolshevik-Left Socialist Revolutionary coalition government

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4557879
AutoresLara Douds (0000-0002-4525-7526, University of York, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen90
Número247
Páginas32-56
Fecha de publicación2017-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistorical Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1468-2281.12170
OpenAlexW2575511701
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas8

In its early months the Soviet republic was governed by the Council of People's Commissars as a dual-party coalition cabinet composed of Bolsheviks and Left S.R.s. This article examines the period of their collaboration in central government, a phase often sidelined in general studies of the Russian Revolution, and attempts a fuller and more positive reassessment of the activity of the coalition. The focus is on the practical functioning of coalition politics inside the council of people's commissars, or ‘Sovnarkom’, from December 1917 to March 1918, and the formal and informal methods through which the Left S.R.s were able to exercise some degree of influence over government

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