Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution

Praise for Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution: "...The text revives original sources of Marxism and demonstrates important means to conduct a revolutionary process..." — Octavio Borges (Granma in Cuba) "...One of the finest historical/analytical works the Trotskyist movement has ever produced." — Ian Donovan (Weekly Worker) The second edition contains additional material, larger font sizes, more spacious layout, and a striking new cover. There have been many books and potted histories of the Russian Revolution, either written from an anti-Bolshevik perspective, or its Stalinist mirror image, which paint a false account of the rise of Bolshevism. For them, Bolshevism is either a historical "accident" or "tragedy." Or it is portrayed erroneously as the work of one great man (Lenin) who marched single-minded toward the October Revolution. Author Alan Woods* reveals the real evolution of Bolshevism as a living struggle of various class forces, tendencies and individuals.  Using a wealth