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  • Building the Party

    by Tony Cliff
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the pivotal events in world history, and the Russian Bolshevik Party played a central role in that...

  • Russia: From Workers' State to State Capitalism

    by Anthony Arnove
    The essays in this book describe the triumph and defeat of the Russian revolution. They show that Stalin’s dictatorship was not the inevitable...

  • All Power to the Soviets

    by Tony Cliff

    Tony Cliff was a lifelong organizer within the international socialist movement. His groundbreaking work established the unique interpretation of...

  • Revolution and Counterrevolution

    by Kevin Murphy
    An exciting contribution to the discussion about class and the Russian Revolution.

  • The Comintern

    by Duncan Hallas
    The Comintern, from its years as a school of strategy and tactics, to its Stalinist demise.

  • Lenin Rediscovered

    by Lars T. Lih
    Lars T. Lih revolutionizes the conventional interpretation of Lenin's classic, included here in an authoritative new translation.

  • Lenin's Political Thought

    by Neil Harding
    A comprehensive history of the political and philosophical evolution of history's most controversial revolutionary.

  • Revolution In Danger

    by Victor Serge
    Assailed by counter-revolution from within and without, Victor Serge brings to life the unwavering revolutionary commitment of red Petrograd.

  • The Revolution Besieged

    by Tony Cliff
    The last installment of Tony Cliff's biography of Russian revolutionary V.I. Lenin, available for the first time in the U.S.

  • Toward the United Front

    Edited by John Riddell
    The proceedings of the last congress of the Communist International in which Lenin participated, now at last available in English

  • Leon Trotsky

    by Tariq Ali
    This illustrated introduction's irreverent cartoons will amuse readers, and surprise them with its sophisticated portrait of Trotsky's life and works.

  • Unfinished Leninism

    by Paul Le Blanc
    A stimulating collection of essays on the revolutionary socialist Vladimir Lenin that survey fierce controversies over his life and ideas.

  • Alexandra Kollontai

    by Cathy Porter
    Kollotai was a brilliant and passionate defender of the ideals of the Russian revolution and women's liberation.

  • Leon Trotsky and the Organizational Principles of the Revolutionary Party

    by Dianne Feeley, Paul Le Blanc, et al.
    Trotsky’s own words on revolutionary organization, from 1917 to 1940, highlight the dynamics of democratic initiative and principled centralism.

  • State and Revolution

    by Todd Chretien and V. I. Lenin
    As both historical document and political statement, State and Revolution's importance can hardly be exaggerated.

  • The Preobrazhensky Papers: Archival Documents and Materials

    by Evgenii Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky
    The documents in this volume, newly discovered and translated into English for the first time, reveal a previously unknown Preobrazhensky.

  • Year One of the Russian Revolution

    by Victor Serge
    Serge exposes the heart of the vital first year of the most important working class revolution in history.

  • Lenin and the Revolutionary Party

    by Paul Le Blanc
    Lenin's political and organizational ideas confront the reality of the labor movement and the revolutionary process.

  • Life and Death of Leon Trotsky

    by Natalia Ivanovna Sedova and Victor Serge
    A biography of Leon Trotsky by two of his close friends and collaborators

  • To the Masses

    Edited by John Riddell
    The proceedings and resolutions of the third congress of the Communist International available in translation for the first time.

  • Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937

    by Barbara C. Allen
    The first biography—in any language—of Alexander Shlyapnikov, a leader and founder, along with Kollontai, of the Workers’ Opposition.

  • Lenin's Moscow

    by Alfred Rosmer
    Engaging, page-turning first hand account of the promise of the Russian Revolution.

  • 1905

    by Leon Trotsky
    1905 chronicles the key developments lead to revolution and the unsuccessful attempt at overthrowing the Tsar of Russia.

  • Leninism under Lenin

    by Marcel Liebman
    A winner of the Isaac Deutscher Prize Liebmann highlights democratic dimensions in Lenin's thinking as it developed over 25 years.