MILIUKOV, Pavel Nikolaevich.

Rossiia na perelome. Bol'shevistskii period russkoi revoliutsii [Russia in crisis. The Bolshevik period of the Russian Revolution].

Paris, [“La Source”,] 1927. Two vols, large 8vo, pp. xxiv, 400, [2] maps; ix, [1] blank, 281, [5] maps; some old stamps of the Petite Bibliothèque des Auteurs Étrangers in Paris; a good copy in recent half blue calf and marbled boards, spines lettered gilt, preserving the original printed card wrappers. First edition in the original Russian. Miliukov (1859–1943), a distinguished historian before the Revolution, played a part in the events he here chronicles. He founded and led the Constitutional Democratic party, was a member of the Duma, and became foreign minister for a few months in 1917 in Prince Lvov’s government after the overthrow of the Tsarist regime. He left Russia when the Bolsheviks gained control and lived for many years as an émigré in Paris.The history of this book, as recounted in the author’s prefaces, is as follows. First came a series of lectures read in October and November 1921, by Miliukov, at the Lowell Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. A reworked version of these lectures was published by Macmillan at the beginning of 1922 under the title Russia to-day and to-morrow. This was followed a few years later by Russlands Zusammenbruch (Leipzig and Berlin, 1925–6, two vols), which included a portrait, and was translated from the Russian manuscript. Our book, greatly expanded from the German version, itself an expansion of the Macmillan version and a fortiori of the Boston lectures, is the final authoritative text of Miliukov’s work. Its first volume is sub-titled Origin and consolidation of the Bolshevik dictatorship and the second The anti-Bolshevik movement. In the preface, Miliukov makes clear the extent to which the text has been enlarged. In the Macmillan edition, the sixth chapter of the book, on the anti-Bolshevik movement, needed 67 pages; in the German edition, 188, but in this Russian version the text of the sixth chapter takes up the entire second volume of 280 pages (there are additional sketched maps). Miliukov explains that this final version includes detail of specifically Russian interest that a foreign audience did not require. Much of the enlargement of the German over the original English version covered events subsequent to the earlier account.Although this book is clearly partisan, Miliukov’s status as a leading historian gives it a disciplined presence in a politically-charged field where, in first-hand accounts, invective is more common than analysis.

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