REVOLUTION BESIEGED : Lenin 1917-1923 (vol. 3)
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- Chicago Haymarket 1979/01/01
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When 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
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Bolshevik Government's First Steps -- 2. Consolidation of Power -- 3. Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly -- 4. Peace of Brest-Litovsk -- 5. Transition from Capitalism to Socialism -- 6. `We Need State Capitalism' -- 7. War Communism (1918-1921) -- 8. Heroic and the Tragic Intertwine -- 9. Proletariat Under War Communism -- 10. War Communism and the Peasantry -- 11. Withering Away of the State? -- 12. Establishment of the Bolsheviks' Political Monopoly -- 13. Transformation of the Party -- 14. Lenin and the Military Front -- 15. Rise of the Communist International -- 16. Proletarian Assault Rebuffed -- the Need for a New Policy -- 17. Comintern -- a School for Tactics -- 18. Lenin, Bolshevism and the Comintern -- 19. Grafting of Bolshevism Fails -- 20. Britain and Bulgaria -- Two Antipodes -- 21. Great Cover-up -- 22. Bolshevik Regime in Crisis -- 23. New Economic Policy -- 24. Defeat of the German Revolution -- 25. Lenin Fights for his Life-Work -- 26. Fighting to the Last Breath... -- 27. Final Defeat.
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