One hundred years ago, workers and peasants in Russia turned the world upside down when they overthrew their tsar, took over their factories, farms, and schools, and set out to build a new society. In this gripping reader, participants and firsthand observers of the revolution tell the inspiring, heroic, and sometimes tragic story of what happened over the course of 1917. Includes contributions from: Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin, John Reed, Louise Bryant, and others.
Todd Chretien is a member of the International Socialist Organization, a frequent contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review, and editor of Haymarket Books’ 2014 edition of Lenin’s State and Revolution.
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Other books edited by Todd Chretien
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Marx in Paris, 1871
by Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy -
State and Revolution
by Todd Chretien and V. I. Lenin
Other books of interest
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Year One of the Russian Revolution
by Victor Serge -
Alexandra Kollontai
by Cathy Porter -
Life and Death of Leon Trotsky
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State and Revolution
by V. I. Lenin -
Lenin's Moscow
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1905
by Leon Trotsky -
The Bolsheviks Come to Power
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History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky -
Lessons of October
by Leon Trotsky -
October Song