Bolsheviks
Lessons of Russia's October 1917 revolution (Part II) — What kind of revolutionary organisation?
Read Part I “Coup or mass insurrection?” here.
Lessons of Russia's October 1917 revolution (Part I) — Coup or mass insurrection?
"October is still ground zero for arguments about fundamental, radical social change.
The lost voice of Iulii Martov
Menshevism: The Girondins of 1917
Pravda: ‘Mandate for Soviet Elections’
Introduction by John Riddell
April 2, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from John Riddell's Marxist Essays and Commentary website — The following declaration appeared 7 May 1917 on the front page of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda under the title, Draft of a mandate for use in electing delegates to the Soviet of Worker and Soldier Deputies. This Mandate marked the first appearance of the slogan “All power to the soviets” in an official party statement. Its purpose was to help the soviet constituency distinguish genuine revolutionary candidates from revolutionaries in name only.
A revolutionary line of march: ‘Old Bolshevism’ in early 1917 re-examined
Before Lenin: Bolshevik theory and practice in February 1917 revisited
By Eric Blanc
March 1, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Historical Materialism — Assessing Bolshevik policy before Lenin’s return to Russia in April 1917 has long been one of the most heated historiographic controversies in the socialist movement.