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Russia: From Worker's State To State Capitalism

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Russia: From Worker's State To State Capitalism explores the historic 1917 Russian revolution when workers first seized control of a major nation. It recounts the initial hopes inspired by the soviets—councils of working people—who ushered in radical social changes amidst the decline of capitalism, touching on unemployment, poverty, and war. The book examines this brief but profound experiment in workers' governance and the challenges it faced.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in political history, socialist theory, and the Russian revolution. It is suitable for students, activists, and anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of revolutionary change and early 20th-century state socialism.

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In the Russian revolution of 1917, workers took control of a major country for the first time in history.

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In the Russian revolution of 1917, workers took control of a major country for the first time in history. To millions throughout the world, the Russian workers' state offered new hope. People everywhere turned from the grim alternatives of a declining capitalism—unemployment, poverty, the threat of new wars—to place their hopes in the government that the soviets, councils of working people, put into power in Russia.

And for a short time, their hopes were realised. Never before had such sweeping changes in society been carried out in so short a time.

Russia: From Worker's State To State Capitalism by Tony Cliff, Anthony Arnove, and Chris Harman delves into this pivotal moment in history, exploring how these monumental shifts were achieved and the subsequent transformation into state capitalism.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781608465453

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 July 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Haymarket Books

Edition: Second Edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 108.0mm

Height: 206.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 174

About the Author

Anthony Arnove: Anthony Arnove produced the Academy Award-nominated documentary Dirty Wars and wrote, directed, and produced The People Speak with Howard Zinn. He is the editor of several books, including Voices of a People's History of the United States, which Arnove co-edited with Zinn, The Essential Chomsky, and Iraq Under Siege, and is the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal. He is on the editorial boards of Haymarket Books and the International Socialist Review.
Tony Cliff: Tony Cliff was a lifelong organizer within the international socialist movement. His groundbreaking work established the unique interpretation of the Soviet Union as a bureaucratic, state-centered version of capitalism, rather than a workers' state. His many works include State Capitalism in Russia and the volume that follows-up from this book, All Power to the Soviets, about Lenin's political leadership from 1914 to 1917.
Ahmed Shawki: Ahmed Shawki is the editor of the International Socialist Review and the author of Black Liberation and Socialism.
Chris Harman: Chris Harman is the author of several books, including A People's History of the World.

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