The full text of the 1903 congress that marked the birth of Bolshevism. Lenin analyzed this verbatim record in his book One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. Learn More

Published on the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution, The Bolsheviks in Power by Alexander Rabinowitch, emeritus professor at Indiana University, is a significant work of historical scholarship. It will serve, for many years to come, as an essential reference point for the study of the political and social aftermath of the overthrow of the bourgeois Provisional Government and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime. In contrast to so many others working in the field of Soviet studies, who have adapted themselves to the prevailing climate of intellectual dishonesty and cynicism, Professor Rabinowitch has not compromised his integrity as a scholar. Learn More

American journalist John Reed's classic eyewitness acount the of October 1917 revolution in Russia. Learn More

In this work, Trotsky, writing from the unique vantage point of a leading participant in both the 1905 and the October 1917 revolutions, explains the historical events, socio-economic processes, and political struggles that led to the creation of the world’s first workers’ state. Learn More

This indispensable volume traces the origins and birth of the Left Opposition to Stalinism in the Soviet Union. Here is the crucial record of the initial stages of the political battle which was to determine the fate of the first workers state. Learn More

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The 1924 edition of Zinoviev's lectures on the history of the Bolshevik party from its origins in the late 19th Century through February 1917. Zinoviev, the early leader of the Communist International, became one of the principal defendants in the Moscow Trials and was executed in August 1936. Learn More

This is the second of five volumes containing Trotsky's speeches, articles and documents on the Red Army during 1918-1923, the years of civil war and bitter fighting against intervention by the imperialist armies. Essential material on the history of the Russian Revolution, this is also one of the major military works of the twentieth century. First published in Russian in 1923 and then suppressed by Stalin, these writings represent an invaluable documentary record. Learn More

This is the third of five volumes containing Trotsky's speeches, articles and documents on the Red Army during 1918-1923, the years of civil war and bitter fighting against intervention by the imperialist armies. Essential material on the history of the Russian Revolution, this is also one of the major military works of the twentieth century. First published in Russian in 1923 and then suppressed by Stalin, these writings represent an invaluable documentary record. Learn More