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Luxemburg discusses the 1917 February and October revolutions in Russia. Her three major criticisms of the policies implemented by the Bolshevik Party were its korenizatsiya policy of self-determination for ethnic minorities, its distribution of land to individual peasant farmers instead of immediate collectivization, and its anti-democratic dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly. [2]
What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement [a] is a political pamphlet written by Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin (credited as N. Lenin) in 1901 and published in 1902, a development of a "skeleton plan" laid out in an article first published in early 1901.
John Reed was on an assignment for The Masses, a magazine of socialist politics, when he was reporting on the Russian Revolution.Although Reed stated that he had "tried to see events with the eye of a conscientious reporter, interested in setting down the truth" [1] during the time of the event, he stated in the preface that "in the struggle my sympathies were not neutral" [1] (since the book ...
1905 is a historical account of the First Russian Revolution written by Soviet leader, Leon Trotsky.The book surveyed a number of historical developments in Tsarist Russia such as the emergence of Russian capitalism, the relationship of social democracy with the political parties and the significance of the Soviet worker's deputies.
The Russian Revolution was inaugurated with the February Revolution in early 1917, in the midst of World War I. With the German Empire dealing major defeats on the war front, and increasing logistical problems in the rear causing shortages of bread and grain, the Russian Army was steadily losing morale, with large scale mutiny looming. [ 1 ]
Lessons of the Revolution: 1917 [15] To the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. - 1917 On Compromises - 1917 Draft Resolution On the Present Political Situation - 1917 The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It: 1917 [16] One of the Fundamental Questions of the Revolution - 1917 The Russian Revolution and Civil War - 1917 The State and ...
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"The Russian Tragedy", "The Russian Revolution and the Communist Party", and "The Kronstadt Rebellion" were published during the summer of 1922. [ 5 ] At the same time, Goldman began writing a book about her experiences in Russia, using material collected by Berkman as sources and with his editorial assistance.