All Power to the Soviets: Lenin 1914-1917 (Vol. 2)Tony Cliff was a lifelong organizer within the international socialist movement. His groundbreaking work established the unique interpretation of the Soviet Union as a bureaucratic, state-centered version of capitalism, rather than a workers' state. His many works include State Capitalism in Russia and the volume that follows-up from this book, All Power to the Soviets, about Lenin's political leadership from 1914 to 1917. |
Contents
The War | 9 |
The Bolshevik Party in the Test of the War | 27 |
Lenin and the National Question | 49 |
Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism | 61 |
Crisis and Collapse of the Tsarist Regime | 67 |
From the February Revolution to Dual Power | 81 |
Lenin Rearms the Party | 99 |
Lenin the Party and the Proletariat | 137 |
Lenin Supports the Rebellious Nationalities | 235 |
The July Days | 247 |
Reaction on the Move | 261 |
The Kornilov Coup | 281 |
State and Revolution | 301 |
The Proletariat Can Wield State Power | 313 |
Lenin Calls Up the Insurrection | 321 |
CHRONOLOGY | 359 |
Lenin Lowers the Temperature | 165 |
Lenin and the Soldiers Mutinies | 181 |
The Peasantry in the Revolution | 197 |
Lenin and Workers Control | 217 |
NOTES | 365 |
INDEX | 395 |
Common terms and phrases
agrarian All-Russian April armed army August Bolshe Bolshevik Party Bolshevism bourgeois bourgeoisie Browder and Kerensky Cadets capital capitalists Central Committee Collected commander comrades conference Congress of Soviets constituent assembly Cossacks decisive declared delegates demand democracy demonstration Deputies dictatorship Duma elections factory committees February Revolution fight Finland forces front garrison German immediately imperialist insurrection International July Days June Kamenev Kautsky Kornilov Kronstadt Kudelli Kutuzov labor land leaders leadership majority March Marxism masses Mensheviks ment Military Organization Military Revolutionary Committee Miliukov minister mood Moscow movement national question October Revolution officers oppressed peace peasants Petersburg Committee Petrograd Soviet political Pravda proletariat provisional government Putilov regime regiment Rosa Luxemburg Russian Revolution Shestoi sezd sheviks Shliapnikov Sidorov situation slogan Social Democratic Socialist Revolutionaries Soviet of Workers Stalin strike struggle Sukhanov tion tionary troops Trotsky tsar Tsarism Ukrainian uprising victory votes Vyborg workers and soldiers Zinoviev
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