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Year one of the Russian Revolution. Translated and edited by Peter Sedgwick. Photographic research by Celestine Dars

The political upheaval of the 1990s has focused the world's attention on the Russian empire. This book tells of the last time its working masses called their rulers to account. In Year One, the year that followed the victorious Bolshevik revolution of October 1917, the Tsar was in prison, the country divided by civil war - and mass meetings on street corners and in factory canteens debated how a better, more just, more equal society could be created. This book shows the many new possibilities released by the workers' revolution of 1917. Serge reveals the forces that were to produce the Stalinist dictatorship... but shows that this was far from inevitable. For in Year One the tremendous energy and creativity of the working class was the motive force behind the first attempt to build a socialist society. --from back cover.

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