Books

• The Ballot, the Streets—or Both

  by August H. Nimtz

  Lenin's Electoral Strategy focuses on Lenin's approach to electoral politics and what he and other Marxists terms the institutions of bourgeois democracy, drawing on Bolshevik debates and Marx and Engel's own writings to show this to be a central feature of their revolutionary strategy.

• Ten Days that Shook the World

  by John Reed

  A new edition of John Reed’s classic eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution, 100 years since its first publication.

• The Women's Revolution

  by Judy Cox

  A captivating account of the central role women played in the Russian Revolution.

• The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917

  by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

  A timely reassessment and detailed history of the epic uprising that toppled the tsarist monarchy and ushered in the next stage of the Russian Revolution.

• The Petrograd Workers in the Russian Revolution

  by David Mandel

  Two definitive works on the early days of the Russian Revolution, now collected in one captivating volume.

• Leaflets of the Russian Revolution

  New translations of the most important documents from socialist parties, soviets, and worker militias in Petrograd during 1917

• Reminiscences of Lenin

  by Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya

  A personal account of Lenin’s life and thought, written by the woman who knew him best.
• Trotsky on Lenin

  by Leon Trotsky

  Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by fellow revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

• October Song

  by Paul Le Blanc

  An evocative and inspiring account of the events of the 1917 Russian Revolution and its legacy.

• Red Petrograd

  by S. A. Smith

  A deeply engaging study, unmatched in its depth, of factory life in Petrograd over the course of Russia’s revolutionary year.
• Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution

  Edited by Todd Chretien

  The Russian Revolution turned the world upside down. This reader tells the story of what happened with riveting eyewitness accounts.
• Imperialism and War

  by Nikolai Bukharin and V. I. Lenin

  The two founding texts of the analysis of capitalism and imperialism in one volume, with annotation.

• Russia

  by Anthony Arnove, Tony Cliff, et al.

  In the Russian revolution of 1917, workers took control of a major country for the first time in history.
• The Bolsheviks Come to Power

  by Alexander Rabinowitch

  A classic work depicting the early months of the Russian Revolution. With a new introduction for the Revolution's centenary.
• Trotsky's Challenge

  Edited by Frederick C. Corney

  The debates surrounding the publication of Trotsky’s Lessons of October are here collected, translated, and explained for the first time.
• Lessons of October

  by Leon Trotsky

  An critical examination of the key actors and larger social movements that led to the rise of the Bolsheviks.

• 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.
• 1905

  by Leon Trotsky

  1905 chronicles the key developments lead to revolution and the unsuccessful attempt at overthrowing the Tsar of Russia.
• Lenin's Moscow

  by Alfred Rosmer

  Engaging, page-turning first hand account of the promise of the Russian Revolution.
• 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.

• The Dimensions of Hegemony

  by Craig Brandist

  In this highly original and engaging text, Craig Brandist unearths the Russian roots of Gramsci’s concept of cultural hegemony.
• The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, 1899-1904

  Edited by Richard Mullin

  Everyone has read Lenin’s ‘What is to Be Done.’ Now everyone can read the contributions of his political interlocutors.
• 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.
• 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