Moscow, Nauka Publishing House. 1976. 387 p. The print run is 3000 copies. Price 2 rubles. 13 kopecks. The Great October Socialist Revolution is one of those events of the past that, in the figurative words of Leonid Brezhnev, "remain as if a part of our today, arousing the interest of not only historians, but also all those who participate in the political struggle of our days"1 . The workers of Moscow wrote a glorious page in the annals of the Great October Revolution. V. I. Lenin, in a number of his works dating back to 1917, repeatedly emphasized that the fate of the socialist revolution in Russia was primarily decided in the working-class quarters of Petrograd and Moscow. The book is dedicated to the history of Moscow during the period when the bourgeois-democratic revolution was transformed into a socialist one by A. Y. Grunt, a senior researcher at the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Candidate of Historical Sciences. As you know, Soviet historians have created a huge research base on this problem. The historiography of revolutionary Moscow in 1917 is constantly updated. In recent years alone, several monographs, documentary collections, articles, and memoirs have been published .2 And this is not accidental. The theme of "October 1917 in Moscow" still has many "white spots", and some of its important subjects are treated in various works very inconsistently. Many of the most controversial issues have been correctly resolved in the works published recently, first of all in the major three-volume work of Academician I. I. Mints "The History of the Great October". However, the topic under consideration is so diverse, complex and relevant that the need for further in-depth research is undeniable. That is why the peer-reviewed monograph of one of the most serious researchers of the history of revolutionary Moscow in 1917 is of legitimate interest. The author's main task is to consider the Moscow events as an organic compone ... Читать далее