When Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik party led the first successful workers revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work was finished with the overthrow of capitalism in Russia. As the fledgling workers' state was gripped by a civil war, the revolution's leaders remained steadfast in their commitment to spreading their successes across all of Europe.
Tony Cliff (1917-2000) spent his life developing revolutionary Marxism against Stalinism. From his early days as a revolutionary in British-occupied Palestine to the high points of struggle in post-war...
When Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik party led the first successful workers revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work wa...
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the pivotal events in world history, and the Russian Bolshevik Party played a central role in that revolution. This book by British socialist Tony Cliff (1917-2000) traces the building of that party and, in particular, the work of its main architect, Lenin.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the pivotal events in world history, and the Russian Bolshevik Party played a central role in that revolutio...
Tony Cliff was a lifelong organizer within the international socialist movement. His groundbreaking work established the unique interpretation of the Soviet Union as a bureaucratic, state-centered version of capitalism, rather than a workers' state. His many works include State Capitalism in Russia and the volume that follows-up from this book, All Power to the Soviets, about Lenin's political leadership from 1914 to 1917.
Tony Cliff was a lifelong organizer within the international socialist movement. His groundbreaking work established the unique interpretation of ...
"La concepcion de Rosa Luxemburg, acerca de las estructuras de las organizaciones revolucionarias -que debian construirse de abajo hacia arriba, sobre una base consistentemente democratica-, se adapta a las necesidades de los movimientos de los trabajadores en los paises avanzados mucho mas estrechamente que la concepcion de Lenin de 1902 a 1904, que los estalinistas de todo el mundo copiaron, agregando un toque burocratico. Ella comprendio mas claramente que nadie que la estructura del partido revolucionario y las relaciones mutuas entre el partido y la clase tendrian gran influencia, no...
"La concepcion de Rosa Luxemburg, acerca de las estructuras de las organizaciones revolucionarias -que debian construirse de abajo hacia arriba, sobre...
To millions throughout the world, the Russian workers' state offered new hope. People everywhere turned from the grim alternatives of a declining capitalismunemployment, poverty, the threat of new warsto place their hopes in the government that the soviets, councils of working people, put into power in Russia.
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To millions throughout the world, the Russian workers' state offered new hope. People everywhere turned from the grim alternatives of a declining c...
