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  • Leon Trotsky

    by Tariq Ali
    This illustrated introduction's irreverent cartoons will amuse readers, and surprise them with its sophisticated portrait of Trotsky's life and works.

  • Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937

    by Barbara C. Allen
    The first biography—in any language—of Alexander Shlyapnikov, a leader and founder, along with Kollontai, of the Workers’ Opposition.

  • Leaflets of the Russian Revolution

    New translations of the most important documents from socialist parties, soviets, and worker militias in Petrograd during 1917

  • Russia

    by Anthony Arnove, Tony Cliff, et al.
    In the Russian revolution of 1917, workers took control of a major country for the first time in history.

  • Russia: From Workers' State to State Capitalism

    by Anthony Arnove
    The essays in this book describe the triumph and defeat of the Russian revolution. They show that Stalin’s dictatorship was not the inevitable...

  • The Dimensions of Hegemony

    by Craig Brandist
    In this highly original and engaging text, Craig Brandist unearths the Russian roots of Gramsci’s concept of cultural hegemony.

  • Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution

    Edited by Todd Chretien
    The Russian Revolution turned the world upside down. This reader tells the story of what happened with riveting eyewitness accounts.

  • All Power to the Soviets

    by Tony Cliff

    Tony Cliff was a lifelong organizer within the international socialist movement. His groundbreaking work established the unique interpretation of...

  • Building the Party

    by Tony Cliff
    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...

  • The Revolution Besieged

    by Tony Cliff
    The last installment of Tony Cliff's biography of Russian revolutionary V.I. Lenin, available for the first time in the U.S.

  • Trotsky's Challenge

    Edited by Frederick C. Corney
    The debates surrounding the publication of Trotsky’s Lessons of October are here collected, translated, and explained for the first time.

  • The Women's Revolution

    by Judy Cox

    A captivating account of the central role women played in the Russian Revolution.

  • Leon Trotsky and the Organizational Principles of the Revolutionary Party

    by Dianne Feeley, Paul Le Blanc, et al.
    Trotsky’s own words on revolutionary organization, from 1917 to 1940, highlight the dynamics of democratic initiative and principled centralism.

  • Imperialism and War

    by Nikolai Bukharin and V. I. Lenin
    The two founding texts of the analysis of capitalism and imperialism in one volume, with annotation.

  • The Comintern

    by Duncan Hallas
    The Comintern, from its years as a school of strategy and tactics, to its Stalinist demise.

  • Lenin's Political Thought

    by Neil Harding
    A comprehensive history of the political and philosophical evolution of history's most controversial revolutionary.

  • The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917

    by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

    A timely reassessment and detailed history of the epic uprising that toppled the tsarist monarchy and ushered in the next stage of the Russian Revolution.

  • Reminiscences of Lenin

    by Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya
    A personal account of Lenin’s life and thought, written by the woman who knew him best.

  • Lenin and the Revolutionary Party

    by Paul Le Blanc
    Lenin's political and organizational ideas confront the reality of the labor movement and the revolutionary process.

  • October Song

    by Paul Le Blanc

    An evocative and inspiring account of the events of the 1917 Russian Revolution and its legacy.

  • Unfinished Leninism

    by Paul Le Blanc
    A stimulating collection of essays on the revolutionary socialist Vladimir Lenin that survey fierce controversies over his life and ideas.

  • State and Revolution

    by Todd Chretien and V. I. Lenin

    Essential reading for generations of revolutionaries, State & Revolution is made newly accessible in this fully annotated edition

  • Leninism under Lenin

    by Marcel Liebman
    A winner of the Isaac Deutscher Prize Liebmann highlights democratic dimensions in Lenin's thinking as it developed over 25 years.

  • Lenin Rediscovered

    by Lars T. Lih
    Lars T. Lih revolutionizes the conventional interpretation of Lenin's classic, included here in an authoritative new translation.