To millions throughout the world, the Russian workers' state offered new hope. People everywhere turned from the grim alternatives of a declining capitalismunemployment, poverty, the threat of new warsto place their hopes in the government that the soviets, councils of working people, put into power in Russia.
Chris Harman is the author of several books, including A People’s History of the World.
Ahmed Shawki (1960-2023) co-founded Haymarket Books and was on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review. He also authored Black Liberation and Socialism.
ISBN: 9781608465453
Publication date: July 25, 2017
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