“The attitude of American/ British observers to the Russian Revolution 1917”.

Introduction…………………………………………………………….3
Chapter I: The Russian Revolution 1917………………………………8
1.1. The presentation of the question………………………………...8
1.2. The Background of the Revolution 1917………………………..9
1.3. Social relations in Russia 1917 through the eyes of American/ British observers………………………………………………………16
Chapter II: American/ British observers about the level of life in Russia 1917…………………………………………………………………. 25
2.1. The level of life in Russia 1917 through the eyes of American/ British observers: economic causes of the Russian Revolution………25
2.2. The Wages and cost of living before and during the revolution…29
2.3. The cultural life 1917…………………………………………….36
Chapter III: The attitude of American/ British observers to the Russian revolutionaries………………………………………………………...38
3.1. Lenin through the eyes of American/ British observers………….38
3.2. The attitude towards the Bolsheviks…………………………… 43
Chapter IV: A choice of a political positions by the Russian intelligency in the autumn of 1917 from the point of view of Russian and American/ British historians………………………………………………………52
4.1. The attitude of American/ British observers to Russian intelligency 1917…………………………………………………………………...52
4.2. Historiographical situation……………………………………….58
Conclusion…………………………………………………………….66
Bibliography…………………………………………………………..68