October Song

Paul Le Blanc, long-time activist and Professor of History at La Roche College, is author of Lenin and the Revolutionary Party, From Marx to Gramsci, and Leon Trotsky. He is an editor of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.

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• Chapter 1 Nothing Can Ever Be the Same1. Corroboration and Contrasts2. Multiple Insurgencies3. Revolutionary Party4. What Went Wrong?5. Framing QuestionsChapter 2 Pre-Revolutionary Russia1. The Crisis of Russian Capitalism2. The Russian Working ClassChapter 3 Revolutionary Triumph1. Revolutionary Vanguard2. The Road to Power3. Soviet DemocracyChapter 4 Proletarian Rule and Mixed Economy1. Workers’ Democracy and Mixed Economy2. Twists and Loops3. Beyond the Mixed Economy4. Workers, Peasants, Cadres