Download or read book The Petrograd Workers and the Soviet Seizure of Power written by David Mandel and published by Palgrave Schol, Print UK. This book was released on 1984 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study questions a number of entrenched views in the historiography of the revolution, and seeks to explain why the power, so bitterly contested, began so soon to slip from the workers' hands.