“Understand please, that before us after all is a victorious uprising of the proletariat… almost the entire proletariat supports Lenin and expects its social liberation from the uprising.” So wrote Martov, a leading opponent of Lenin and the revolutionary Bolshevik party. The 1917 Russian Revolution remains the most important example of workers seizing political power and attempting to build a socialist society.
This session will explore the real story of the revolution – millions of workers and peasants, led by the Bolshevik Party, taking total democratic control over society into their own hands.