Subtitled 'The Road
to Soviet Power and Peace' this second
volume takes up the story in April 1917,
focusing on Imperial Army soldiers reaction
to the war, to their officers, and to the
politics of the Russian Revolution occurring
around them. It is both a military and a
social history, viewing the collapse of the
Imperial Army as a social process that
included the coincidence of goals among both
soldiers and Bolsheviks. The author traces
in detail the breakdown of the army as a
fighting machine, and the tense relations of
officers and soldiers during the June, 1917
offensive.
