The Menshevik Leaders in the Russian Revolution: Social Realities and Political StrategiesAt the end of Febraury 1917 the tsarist government of Russia collapsed in a whirlwind of demonstrations by the workers and soldier of Petrograd. Ziva Galili tells how the moderate socialists, or Mensheviks, then attempted to prevent the conflicts between the newly formed liberal Provisional Government (the bourgeois camp) and the Petrograd Soviet (the democractic camp) from escalating into civil war and how, in October of that same year, they finally