The Russian revolution in October 1917 gave the workers’,
soldiers and peasants’ soviets full state power.
It swept away the
bourgeois state.
Subsequent successful seizures of power in the
name of the workers have involved either peasant armies led by...
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The Russian revolution in October 1917 gave the workers’,
soldiers and peasants’ soviets full state power.
It swept away the
bourgeois state.
Subsequent successful seizures of power in the
name of the workers have involved either peasant armies led by
working class political nuclei or, disastrously, the occupation of
countries by the forces of the Russian workers’ state.
The bureaucratic leaders of European workers thwarted the
spread of the revolution.
The isolated Stalinist bureaucracy
produced a consolatory myth: that Russia did not need such foreign
victories because it would achieve ‘Socialism in one Country’.
To defy this myth, this book brings together documents by
Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky illustrating the real history of the
strategy that won the Russian revolution and can win future working
class seizures of power.
Inside, readers will find Marx and Engels’
“Address to the Communist League”, Lenin’s “April Theses” and
“The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present R
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