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October 1917 Workers in Power (Paperback)
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October 1917 Workers in Power (Paperback)
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Was October 1917 a coup d'etat or a social revolution? Writing as
both a historian and political activist, Ernest Mandel vigorously
reasserts the deep legitimacy of the Russian Revolution. He
considers mistakes made by the Bolshevik leadership in 1917-21 and
sets out lessons to be learnt.David Mandel's 'Factory Committees
and Workers' Control in Petrograd in 1917' draws on
Russian-language archives to tell the story from below. Petrograd
workers did not dream at first of 'socialist experiments'. Factory
committees met fierce resistance from owners, they were driven to
take management into their own hands and to seek the
nationalisation of industries. Common conceptions about the
'utopian' and 'anarchistic' impulses supposedly behind the October
Revolution are reassessed and refuted.The introduction by Paul Le
Blanc, provides a new evaluation of the events one century on. He
discusses recent scholarship and debates, new ways of comprehending
class, the centrality of women and that of ethnicity, race and
national identity, as well as Lars Lih's reassessment of the role
of Kamenev and Zinoviev. Paul Le Blanc considers 'what went right:
the revolution that brought 'bread, peace and land' to millions,
and 'what went wrong'. Were the Bolsheviks elitist, sectarian and
authoritarian? He assesses what is still relevant today and what is
not.
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