Lessons Of October

Excerpts in the ISR, Jacobin, and Socialist Worker. Reviews in Historical Materialism, NLR, ISJ, ISR and range of left-wing journals and magazines. Along with Trotsky's classic History of the Russian Revolution, Paul Le Blanc's Revolutionary Studies, and Nadezhda Krupskaya's Reminiscences of Lenin, one of a number of books Haymarket is publishing to coincide with the 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution – a milestone which makes a high level of interest from scholars and activists very likely.

An critical examination of the key actors and larger social movements that led to the rise of the Bolsheviks.In this sharply polemical account, Leon Trotsky draws up a balance sheet of the world's first successful workers' revolution. Written primarily for members of the newly created Communist International, Trotsky focuses on the specific role played by the Bolshevik Party in leading Russian workers to victory.