Hello all. I tried looking at the book list in the sidebar, but when I selected Russia, nothing showed up. I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but here goes. Does anyone have any good book recommendations on this topic. Recently, I have started studying the Russian revolution in depth and I am looking for a book that documents old bolsheviks without just centering on Trotsky and Lenin. People I am interested in are Sverdlov, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, etc. The important Bolshevik players that often get overlooked. Thanks in advance.
I don't know of a book that's dedicated specifically to the Old Bolsheviks as a group, but I would definitely recommend Stephen F. Cohen's biography of Bukharin, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution, as well as Robert C. Tucker's Stalin in Power for a more general overview of that era. Jürg Ulrich wrote a biography of Kamenev in German (Kamenew: Der gemäßigte Bolschewik), but I don't think it's been translated into English (and I admittedly haven't read it).