All Power to the Soviets

The second volume of Tony Cliff's political biography of Lenin begins with the collapse of the European socialist movement on the outbreak of the First World War. It ends with the first victorious workers' revolution—the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

About the author

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.