Russia since 1917
RUSSIA SINCE 1917 Russia-1917 PDF P R E F A C E This pamphlet consists of articles published originally in the Socialist Standard. It is a record, in collected form, of the attitude of the Socialist Party of Great Britain to events in Russia since 1917. In March of that year, the Czarist regime collapsed and was followed, aftera short-lived stop-gap Ministry, by the Kerensky Government, which was a coalition of various reformist parties. This Government was opposed by the Bolsheviks who, under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky, overthrew it and seized power in October 1917. In the articles themselves, no attempt has been made to interfere with the original texts. The articles stand just as they were written. We have nothing to fear from letting our original words stand. There are, it is true, passages in some of the earlier articles which, were we writing today in the light of information now available, we would phrase differently; but these are points of detail. In essentials, ...