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Arrested in 1917 for their anti-conscription campaign during the First World War, they were subsequently deported to Russia in the 1919 1920 Red Scare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough they were initially optimistic about returning to Russia in the midst of social revolution, over the next two years Goldman and Berkman would come face-to-face with the contradictions of \"the dictatorship of the proletariat\" as they witnessed the persecution of Russian anarchists, the suppression of revolutionary labor movements, and the brutal annihilation of the 1921 Kronstadt Uprising. The two anarchists quickly learned that the Bolshevik Party's dictatorship was not the embodiment of the workers' revolution, but was in fact \"the very antithesis of revolution.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough their first-hand accounts of the situation in Russia, Goldman and Berkman reminded revolutionaries everywhere that \"the state whatever its name or form is ever the mortal enemy of liberty and popular self-determination\" and that true social revolution can never be managed or manipulated by political parties seeking state power, but must emerge from the creative self-activity of working people themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new volume collects selected writings by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM1MzI3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/emma-goldman\" title=\"Emma Goldman\"\u003eEmma Goldman\u003c\/a\u003e and Alexander Berkman that recount their experiences in Russia from 1920 to 1922. Famous essays like \"Bolsheviks Shooting Anarchists,\" \"The Prisons of Russia,\" and \"There Is No Communism in Russia\" are collected here alongside immortal pamphlets like \u003cem\u003eThe Crushing of the Russian Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Russian Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Kronstadt Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e. 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The volume contains writings going back to his teenage years in Brussels, where he became influenced by the doctrine of individualist anarchism. At the heart of the anthology are key articles written soon after his arrival in Paris in 1909, when he became editor of the newspaper l'anarchie. In these articles Serge develops and debates his own radical thoughts, arguing the futility of mass action and embracing \"illegalism.\" Serge's involvement with the notorious French group of anarchist armed robbers, the Bonnot Gang, landed him in prison for the first time in 1912. Anarchists Never Surrender includes both his prison correspondence with his anarchist comrade Émile Armand and articles written immediately after his release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also includes several articles and letters written by Serge after he had left anarchism behind and joined the Russian Bolsheviks in 1919. 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Stone called one of the “moral figures of our time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“One of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes.” —Susan Sontag\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I can’t think of anyone else who has written about the revolutionary movement in this century with Serge’s combination of moral insight and intellectual richness.” —Dwight Macdonald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“To me he has seemed a model of the independent intellectual in Europe between the wars: leftist but not dogmatic, political yet deeply involved with issues of cultural life, and a novelist of very considerable powers.” —Irving Howe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE4NTI0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victor-serge\" title=\"Victor Serge\"\u003eVictor Serge\u003c\/a\u003e is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism.” —Erich Fromm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia’s revolution and Spain’s agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.” —I.F. Stone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I know of no other writer with whom Serge can be very usefully compared. The essence of the man and his books is to be found in his attitude toward the truth. . . . His life and its choices demonstrate an exemplary truth to which he was prophetically sensitive and which we should now accept as axiomatic. Institutions can be defended by lies, revolutions never.” —John Berger, \u003cem\u003eNew Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVictor Serge (1890–1947) was born to Russian anti-Tsarist exiles living in Brussels. As a young anarchist firebrand, Victor was sentenced to five years in a French penitentiary in 1912. In 1919, Serge joined the Bolsheviks. An outspoken critic of Stalin, Serge was expelled from the Party and arrested in 1929. Nonetheless, he managed to complete three novels (\u003cem\u003eMen in Prison\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBirth of Our Power\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eConquered City\u003c\/em\u003e) and a history (\u003cem\u003eYear One of the Russian Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e), published in Paris. Arrested again in Russia and deported to Central Asia in 1933, he was allowed to leave the USSR in 1936 after international protests by militants and prominent writers like André Gide and Romain Rolland. Hounded by Stalinist agents, Serge lived in precarious exile in Brussels, Paris, Vichy France, and Mexico City, where he died in 1947.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMitchell Abidor is the principal French translator for the Marxists Internet Archive and has published two collections of his translations, \u003cem\u003eThe Great Anger: Ultra-Revolutionary Writing in France from the Atheist Priest to the Bonnot Gang\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCommunards: The Story of the Paris Commune of 1871 as Told by Those Who Fought for It\u003c\/em\u003e. He is currently working on translations of further unpublished works by Victor Serge and Daniel Guérin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Greeman is best known as the translator and prefacer of five of Victor Serge’s seven novels, most recently \u003cem\u003eMen in Prison\u003c\/em\u003e (PM Press). He is a founding member of the libertarian socialist Praxis Center in Moscow and Secretary of the Victor Serge Foundation, which supports the Victor Serge Libraries in Moscow and Kiev and underwrites translations and publication of Serge’s books in Russian and Arabic. Greeman has published literary, political, and biographical studies of Serge in English, French, Russian, and Spanish as well as prefaces to French editions of Serge’s books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Victor Serge\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Mitchell Abidor\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-62963-031-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 256 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175200141405,"sku":"9781629630311","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/b_anarchists_never_surrender.jpg?v=1654987842"},{"product_id":"birth-of-our-power","title":"Birth of Our Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirth of Our Power\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917–1919. Serge's tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I. When the flames of revolution suddenly erupt in Russia and Spain, Europe is \"burning at both ends.\" Although the Spanish uprising eventually fizzles, in Russia the workers, peasants, and common soldiers are able to take power and hold it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSerge’s “tale of two cities” is constructed from the opposition between Barcelona, the city “we” could not take, and Petrograd, the starving, beleaguered capital of the Russian Revolution besieged by counter-revolutionary Whites. Between the romanticism of radicalized workers awakening to their own power in a sun-drenched Spanish metropolis to the grim reality of workers clinging to power in Russia’s dark, frozen revolutionary outpost. From “victory in defeat” to “defeat in victory.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel was composed a decade after the revolution in Leningrad, where Serge was living in semicaptivity because of his declared opposition to Stalin’s dictatorship over the revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Nothing in it has dated. . . . It is less an autobiography than a sustained, incandescent lyric (half-pantheist, half-surrealist) of rebellion and battle.” —\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Surely one of the most moving accounts of revolutionary experience ever written.” —Neal Ascherson, \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Probably the most remarkable of his novels. . . . Of all the European writers who have taken revolution as their theme, Serge is second only to Conrad. . . . Here is a writer with a magnificent eye for the panoramic sweep of historical events and an unsparingly precise moral insight.” —Francis King, \u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Intense, vivid, glowing with energy and power . . . A wonderful picture of revolution and revolutionaries . . . The power of the novel is in its portrayal of the men who are involved.” —\u003cem\u003eManchester Evening News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eBirth of Our Power\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the finest romances of revolution ever written, and confirms Serge as an outstanding chronicler of his turbulent era. . . . As an epic, \u003cem\u003eBirth of Our Power\u003c\/em\u003e has lost none of its strength.” —Lawrence M. Bensky, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"Victor Serge\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victor-serge\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE4NTI0In0=\"\u003eVictor Serge\u003c\/a\u003e (1890–1947) was born to Russian anti-Tsarist exiles living in Brussels. As a young anarchist firebrand, Victor was sentenced to five years in a French penitentiary in 1912. In 1919, Serge joined the Bolsheviks. An outspoken critic of Stalin, Serge was expelled from the Party and arrested in 1929. Nonetheless, he managed to complete three novels (\u003cem\u003eMen in Prison\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBirth of Our Power\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eConquered City\u003c\/em\u003e) and a history (\u003cem\u003eYear One of the Russian Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e), published in Paris. Arrested again in Russia and deported to Central Asia in 1933, he was allowed to leave the USSR in 1936 after international protests by militants and prominent writers like André Gide and Romain Rolland. Hounded by Stalinist agents, Serge lived in precarious exile in Brussels, Paris, Vichy France, and Mexico City, where he died in 1947.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Greeman is best known as the translator and prefacer of five of Victor Serge’s seven novels, most recently \u003cem\u003eMen in Prison\u003c\/em\u003e (PM Press). He is a founding member of the libertarian socialist Praxis Center in Moscow and is secretary of the Victor Serge Foundation, which supports the Victor Serge Libraries in Moscow and Kiev and underwrites translations and publication of Serge’s books in Russian and Arabic. 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Zetkin broke new ground by exploring the intersections of gender and class. In these writings, she describes the political process that ultimately allowed for socialized reproduction-namely the establishment by the Soviet revolutionary government of communal kitchens, laundries and child care facilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Clara Zetkin\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Philip S. 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The son of anti-czarist exiles in Brussels, Serge was a young anarchist in Paris; a syndicalist rebel in Barcelona; a Bolshevik in Petrograd; a Comintern agent in Central Europe; a comrade of Trotsky’s; a friend of writers like Andrei Bely, Boris Pilnyak, and André Breton; a prisoner of Stalin; a dissident Marxist in exile in Mexico . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLike Serge’s extraordinary novels, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems bears witness to decades of revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule; many of the poems were written during the “immense shipwreck” of Stalin’s ascendancy. In poems datelined Petrograd, Orenburg, Paris, Marseille, the Caribbean, and Mexico, Serge composed elegies for the fallen—as well as prospective elegies for the living who, like him, endured prison, exile, and bitter disappointment in the revolutions of the first half of the twentieth century:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNight falls, the boat pulls in, \u003cbr\u003e\nstop singing. \u003cbr\u003e\nExile relights its captive lamps\u003cbr\u003e\non the shore of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout A Blaze in a Desert, Serge draws on the heritage of late- and post-Symbolist writers like Verhaeren, Rictus, Apollinaire, Blok, and Bely—themselves authors of messages of a more general resistance by the human spirit—to express the anguish of the failure of the Russian Revolution and to search out glimmers of hope in the ruins of the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Blaze in a Desert comprises Victor Serge’s sole published book of poetry, Resistance (1938), his unpublished manuscript Messages (1946), and his last poem, “Hands” (1947).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE4NTI0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victor-serge\" title=\"Victor Serge\"\u003eVictor Serge\u003c\/a\u003e was a major novelist, a revolutionary, and a historical witness, so it is perhaps not surprising that his poetry has been overlooked. But his poetry is for real. It is as grounded in specifics as you might expect from a fighter in some of the twentieth century’s great struggles, and as visionary as you’d hope from a disciple of Rimbaud and a friend to the Surrealists. Reading it is like coming upon an unsuspected corridor in the house of literature. James Brook’s lucid translation does it full justice.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Luc Sante, author of The Other Paris and translator of Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In these dark times, the poetry of Victor Serge illuminates the deep continuum of revolutionary history. As all great work, it shows the power of both resistance \u0026amp; acceptance. Serge is noted for his prose but his poetry is in many ways more moving. It inspires the reader to stay true to the revolutionary spirit and will in its compassion, defiance, and outrage.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—David Meltzer, author of San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets, When I Was a Poet, and Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVictor Serge (1890–1947) was born to Russian anti-Tsarist exiles living in Brussels. As a young anarchist firebrand, he was sentenced to five years in a French penitentiary in 1912. In 1919, Serge joined the Bolsheviks. An outspoken critic of Stalin, he was expelled from the Party and arrested in 1929. Nonetheless, he managed to complete three novels (Men in Prison, Birth of Our Power, and Conquered City) and a history (Year One of the Russian Revolution), published in Paris. Arrested again in Russia and deported to Central Asia in 1933, he was allowed to leave the USSR in 1936 after international protests by militants and prominent writers such as André Gide and Romain Rolland. Hounded by Stalinist agents, Serge lived in precarious exile in Brussels, Paris, Vichy France, and Mexico City, where he died in 1947.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJames Brook is a poet and translator living in the San Francisco Bay Area. His translations include works by Guy Debord, Henri Michaux, Gellu Naum, Benjamin Péret, and Alberto Savinio. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in Big Bridge, City Lights Review, Exquisite Corpse, Gare du Nord, Montana Gothic, Mudlark, New American Writing, Poésie, Science as Culture, Two Lines, Volt, and other journals. He is the principal editor of Resisting the Virtual Life (with Iain Boal) and Reclaiming San Francisco (with Chris Carlsson and Nancy J. Peters). The New York Times named his translation of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s The Prone Gunman a Notable Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Greeman is the translator of five of Victor Serge’s seven novels: Men in Prison (PM Press), Birth of Our Power (PM Press), Conquered City, Midnight in the Century, and Unforgiving Years. 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Conservative and reactionary minds refuse to do so—they wish us to believe that great revolutions have been nothing more than unfortunate accidents, that the peoples who have made them were carried away by their deceitful enthusiasm, diversions from the normal current of history. This collection of essays helps to situate the lessons of the October 1917 Russian Revolution from a perspective of 100 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSamir Amin, born in Cairo in 1931, is one of the world’s greatest radical thinkers —a creative Marxist’. He is the director of Third World Forum (Forum du tiers monde), Dakar and President of the World Forum for Alternatives. 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There is a striking similarity with the masterly biography of Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher.” Ernest Mandel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarcel Liebman was a historian of socialism and of communism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175281045597,"sku":"9781608466726","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/leninismunderlenin.jpg?v=1654988208"},{"product_id":"leaflets-of-the-russian-revolution-socialist-organizing-in-1917","title":"Leaflets of the Russian Revolution: Socialist Organizing in 1917","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen workers and peasants rose up across Russia and smashed the centuries old Tsarist autocracy their actions reverberated across the world, and continue to inspire activists to this day. 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This in-depth, eyewitness history written by Voline, an outspoken activist in the Russian Revolution, is accompanied by a biography of the author by Rudolf Rocker and a contemporary introduction by anarchist historian Iain McKay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSignificant attention is given to what the author describes as “struggles for the real Social Revolution”; that is, the uprising of the sailors and workers of Kronstadt in 1921, and the peasant movement that Nestor Makhno led in Ukraine. These movements, which sought to defend the social revolution from destruction by the politicians, provide important material for a clearer understanding of both the original objectives of the Russian Revolution and the problems with which all revolutions with far-reaching social objectives have to contend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the revolutionary press of the time, Voline reveals the deep cleavage between the objectives of the libertarians and those of the Bolsheviks, differences which the latter “resolved” by ruthlessly eliminating all who stood in their way in the struggle for power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition is a translation of the full text of \u003cem\u003eLa Révolution inconnue\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published in French in 1947. It reinstates material omitted from earlier English-language editions and reproduces the complete text of the original volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating and valuable book—a combination of history, eyewitness account, and partisan advocacy—about the Russian revolution of 1917–21.” Stephen F. Cohen, author of \u003cem\u003eBukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In rich detail Voline documents the efforts of workers, peasants, and intellectuals to inaugurate a free society based on local initiative and autonomy. . . . It should be read by every person interested in the anarchist movement and the Russian Revolution.” Paul Avrich, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Russian Anarchists\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The uniqueness of his work consists not only in the events that the author has selected for analysis but also in the anarchist point of view. Neither would be found in Soviet or Western academic literature of the Revolution.” \u003cem\u003eChoice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“One of the most coherent and comprehensive personal accounts of the Russian Revolution, of the nature of the Bolshevik State from its birth in 1917 through to its suppression of both the Kronstadt uprising of 1921 and of the Makhnovist peasant movement in the Ukraine between 1918 and 1921.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyMTEzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/stuart-christie\" title=\"Stuart Christie\"\u003eStuart Christie\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyMTEyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/granny-made-me-an-anarchist-general-franco-the-angry-brigade-and-me\" title=\"Granny Made Me an Anarchist\"\u003eGranny Made Me an Anarchist\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVoline (Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum, 1882–1945), writer, educator, poet, and anarchist, was an outspoken activist in the Russian Revolution. Exiled by the Tsarist tribunal, then sentenced to death by Trotsky and rescued amid protests, he never ceased to live up to his chosen nom de guerre based on the Russian word for freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIain McKay is an independent anarchist writer and researcher. He was the main author of An Anarchist FAQ as well as numerous other works, including \u003cem\u003eMutual Aid: An Introduction and Evaluation\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition, he has edited and introduced \u003cem\u003eProperty Is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eDirect Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e; and Kropotkin’s 1913 book \u003cem\u003eModern Science and Anarchy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRudolf Rocker (1873–1958) was one of the most prominent writers, speakers, and activists of anarchism’s classical period. His works include \u003cem\u003eNationalism and Culture \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAnarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice\u003c\/em\u003e. Rocker was an outspoken critic of the suppression of individual freedom and anarchism under Russian communism and a supporter of the Kronstadt uprising and Nestor Makhno’s peasant movement in Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Voline\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-62963-577-4\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 832 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175300608093,"sku":"9781629635774","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/the_unknown_revolution.jpg?v=1654988372"},{"product_id":"1917-revolution-in-russia-and-its-aftermath","title":"1917: Revolution in Russia and its Aftermath","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the Russian Revolution's centenary year Black Rose Books presents a collection of three books by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM1MzI3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/emma-goldman\" title=\"Emma Goldman\"\u003eEmma Goldman\u003c\/a\u003e, Alexander Berkman and Ida Mett that provide eyewitness accounts of its triumphs, disappointments and horrors. Following their scandalous deportation from the United States in 1919, Goldman and Berkman were greeted as heroes by the new Bolshevik government in Russia, with Berkman describing their arrival as the \"most sublime day of my life\". Why then, barely two years later, did both decide to leave Russia for good? 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Patterson’s work will serve as an important corrective to prevailing interpretations of the Ukrainian anarchist experience in the nascent development of the Soviet regime.”  Colin Neufeldt, Professor of History, Concordia University of Edmonton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A highly sensitive reading of the memoir literature that offers a very convincing account of the relationship between the Makhnovist movement and the Mennonite community. A fascinating monograph.”  Christopher Gilley, \u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Russia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A tremendous case study in how groups tend to rationalize their place in violent times, legitimating their identity — in this case Makhnovists as freedom fighters and Mennonites as faithful in persecution. Individuals and events then become concentrated as symbols that can no longer communicate the breadth and complexity of the reality they represent. 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Readers will encounter a multifaceted Makhno attempting to navigate his movement through the furies of revolution and civil war' - Sean Patterson, author of 'Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine’s Civil War, 1917-1921'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Before Rojava, before Spain, there was Ukraine. Darch's brilliant study recovers the intertwined stories of the anarchist \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE2NTUwIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/nestor-makhno\" title=\"Nestor Makhno\"\u003eNestor Makhno\u003c\/a\u003e, factory worker and son of freed serfs, and the revolution that swept Ukraine. This highly recommended study of an epic time shows another revolution was possible’ - Lucien van der Walt, Professor of Economic \u0026amp; Industrial Sociology, Rhodes University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColin Darch is a fellow of the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa. He is the co-author of Freedom of Information in the Developing World (Oxford: Chandos, 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eList of Maps\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eThe Deep Roots of Rural Discontent: Guliaipole, 1905–17\u003cbr\u003eThe Turning Point: Organising Resistance to the German Invasion, 1918\u003cbr\u003eBrigade Commander and Partisan: Makhno’s Campaigns against Denikin, January–May 1919\u003cbr\u003eBetrayal in the Heat of Battle? The Red–Black Alliance Falls Apart, May–September 1919\u003cbr\u003eThe Long March West and the Battle at Peregonovka\u003cbr\u003eRed versus White, Red versus Green: The Bolsheviks Assert Control\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Act: Alliance at Starobel’sk, Wrangel’s Defeat, and Betrayal at Perekop\u003cbr\u003eThe Bitter Politics of the Long Exile: Romania, Poland, Germany, and France, 1921–34\u003cbr\u003eWhy Anarchism? Why Ukraine? Contextualising Makhnovshchina\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: The Reframing of Makhno for the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40317806772317,"sku":"9780745338873","price":36.38,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9780745338873.jpg?v=1658116252"},{"product_id":"circling-marx-essays-1980-2020","title":"Circling Marx: Essays 1980-2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcclaimed scholar Peter Beilharz explores the history of Marxism in this compelling collection of essays.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKarl Marx circles us, and we him. This reflects the power of his legacy, but it also indicates the nature of the intellectual process. We move around objects of interest and insight, working by successive approximations. Peter Beilharz has been circling Marx for forty years. This volume of essays expands the metaphor by working through three circles in the history of Marxism. The first works with Marx; the second with the classical legacy, through to Bolshevism and Western Marxism; the third steps closer to the present, engaging with thinkers such as Bauman, Heller and Castoriadis. 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In approaching these critically across cases from Russia, Turkey, Spain and Bolivia, the book contributes to the current renaissance of Marxism, while distancing this from the legacy of 'real existing' twentieth-century attempts at building revolutionary alternatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Auxilary Statements podcast has done two episodes discussing the Spain and Turkey sections of this book (episodes 110 and 94 respectively). You can listen to those \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/auxiliarystatements\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e or wherever you get podcasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-offset-key=\"soe7-0-0\" data-editor=\"2bjs4\" data-block=\"true\" class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"soe7-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"soe7-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-text=\"true\"\u003eThe author passed away in April 2024. If you'd like to learn more about his life and work, we recommend checking out:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"soe7-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-text=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"soe7-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"soe7-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-text=\"true\"\u003eAn archive of his writing at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.breaktheirhaughtypower.net\/\"\u003eBreak Their Haughty Power\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"soe7-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-text=\"true\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"patreon.com\/posts\/e245-rip-loren-102425662\"\u003eEpisode 245 of the Antifada podcast\u003c\/a\u003e, a memorial episode with several of Loren's comrades.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"soe7-1-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-text=\"true\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"rhttps:\/\/internationalistperspective.org\/in-memory-of-loren-goldner\/\"\u003e\"In Memory of Loren Goldner\"\u003c\/a\u003e — Internationalist Perspective\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40440207802461,"sku":"9781608468188","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/revolution_defeat_andtheoreticalunderdevelopment.jpg?v=1761842385"},{"product_id":"emma-goldman-living-my-life-vol-3","title":"Emma Goldman: Living My Life, Vol. 3","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"tab-content\" id=\"tab-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003eEmma Goldman’s autobiography. 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Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin’s Bolshevik experiment, and more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Active Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40445174448221,"sku":"LML2","price":19.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1424_Living_My_Life_-_volume_2_-_Emma_goldmanLARGE.jpg?v=1661174802"},{"product_id":"emma-goldman-living-my-life-vol-1","title":"Emma Goldman: Living My Life, Vol 1","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"tab-content\" id=\"tab-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003eEmma Goldman’s autobiography. 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The book was based on a much longer manuscript entitled \"My Two Years in Russia\" which was an eyewitness account of events in Russia from 1920 to 1921 that ensued in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and which culminated in the Kronstadt rebellion. Long-concerned about developments with the \u003ci\u003eBolsheviki\u003c\/i\u003e, Goldman described the rebellion as the \"final wrench. I [Goldman] saw before me the Bolshevik State, formidable, crushing every constructive revolutionary effort, suppressing, debasing, and disintegrating everything.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch to Goldman's dismay, only upon receiving the first printed copies of the book did she become aware that (1) the publisher had changed the title, and (2) the last twelve chapters were entirely missing, including an Afterword which Goldman felt was \"the most vital part\" of the book. Sympathetic to the initial \"Russian Revolution\", the (complete) book is nonetheless a strong and impassioned left critique of the \u003ci\u003eBolshevik Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e as well as Lenin's New Economic Policy—an \"all-powerful, centralized Government with State Capitalism as its economic expression.\" The complete book is also critical of Marxian theory which Goldman describes as \"a cold, mechanistic, enslaving formula.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter much back and forth with the publishers, the missing portions of Goldman's original manuscript were published in a second (American) volume \u003ci\u003eMy Further Disillusionment in Russia\u003c\/i\u003e (also titled by the publisher) in 1924. In the preface to the second \"volume\" of the American edition, Goldman wryly observes that only two of the reviewers sensed the incompleteness of the original American version, one of whom was not a 'regular' critic, but a librarian. 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The sailors of Kronstadt had been instrumental in aiding the Bolsheviks to power, but by 1921 they had become disillusioned with the direction that events were taking. Frustrated by worsening economic conditions and by the Bolsheviks increasingly brutal attempts at centralising power, the sailors and soldiers of Kronstadt put forward a series of demands designed to win back the control and autonomy that had been promised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Kronstadt uprising of 1921 was one of the most important yet often overlooked events of the Russian civil war. The bloody suppression of the rebels by the ‘government of the workers and peasants’ marked the final blow to any hopes of a genuine popular revolution based on democratic self-management. 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Wherever he was, Rodney was a lightning rod for working-class Black Power organizing. His deportation sparked Jamaica’s Rodney Riots in 1968, and his scholarship trained a generation how to approach politics on an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding the Working People’s Alliance in Guyana, the thirty-eight-year-old Rodney was assassinated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWalter Rodney’s Russian Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e collects surviving texts from a series of lectures he delivered at the University of Dar es Salaam, an intellectual hub of the independent Third World. It had been his intention to work these into a book, a goal completed posthumously with the editorial aid of Robin D.G. Kelley and Jesse Benjamin. Moving across the historiography of the long Russian Revolution with clarity and insight, Rodney transcends the ideological fault lines of the Cold War. Surveying a broad range of subjects—the Narodniks, social democracy, the October Revolution, civil war, and the challenges of Stalinism—Rodney articulates a distinct viewpoint from the Third World, one that grounds revolutionary theory and history with the people in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Any reader will find a wealth of useful arguments and information here.” \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"byline\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout Walter Rodney\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contributors-single--quote\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If Walter Rodney’s assassins were under the impression that they could arrest the flow of his ideas by destroying his body, they could have not been more wrong.” Angela Davis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contributors-single--info-bio\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual \u003cstrong\u003eWalter Rodney\u003c\/strong\u003e emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed twentieth-century Jamaica’s most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People’s Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney was assassinated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJesse Benjamin\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor at Kennesaw State University and a Board Member of the Walter Rodney Foundation (WRF), where he edits of the peer-reviewed journals \u003cem\u003eSouth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eATL\u003c\/em\u003e, and is the Coeditor of \u003cem\u003eGroundings\u003c\/em\u003e, the WRF publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTYifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/robin-d-g-kelley\" title=\"Robin D.G. Kelley\"\u003eRobin D.G. Kelley\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of US History at UCLA. His books include \u003cem\u003eAfrica Speaks, America Answers!: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout Vijay Prashad\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contributors-single--quote\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/vijay-prashad\" title=\"Vijay Prashad\"\u003eVijay Prashad\u003c\/a\u003e is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Reseach and Chief Editor of LeftWord Books. 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This expertly edited new collection of her writings, with selections from every period of her career, will help a new generation of activists discover the key pillars of the Marxist-Humanist philosophy she helped pioneer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRussia From Proletarian Revolution to State-Capitalist Counter-Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e begins with Dunayevskaya's careful reading of Lenin's notebooks on Hegel, which she saw as his 'philosophic preparation for proletarian revolution, ' and moves from there to her attempts to grapple with the class nature of the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin. This question, prompted by the march of the Red Army toward conquest of sections of Europe in the lead up to World War II, prompted a fractious debate in the international Trotskyist movement. In response, Dunayevskaya and her collaborator C.L.R. James developed a theory of State-capitalism that became the cornerstone of their intellectual and political work through the rest of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40845308657757,"sku":"9781608469338","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781608469338-f_large-86e2de10bdfbecbda4d123cd5c6bcc50.jpg?v=1673024362"},{"product_id":"october-the-story-of-the-russian-revolution","title":"October: The Story of the Russian Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eMulti-award-winning author China Miéville captures the drama of the Russian Revolution in this “engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century” (Village Voice)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world’s first workers’ state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. How did this unimaginable transformation take place?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a panoramic sweep, stretching from St. Petersburg and Moscow to the remotest villages of a sprawling empire, Miéville uncovers the catastrophes, intrigues and inspirations of 1917, in all their passion, drama and strangeness. Intervening in long-standing historical debates, but told with the reader new to the topic especially in mind, here is a breathtaking story of humanity at its greatest and most desperate; of a turning point for civilization that still resonates loudly today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChina Miéville on the Russian Revolution:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-tvCfiLzee8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“This gripping account is a re-enactment of the Russian Revolution … His writing can be as passionate as that of the poets of the time: Alexander Blok, Mikhail Kuzmin, Marina Tsvetaeva, to mention some of those quoted here. Miéville’s own special effects are of a piece with them.” \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"edition-single--readmoreized-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Miéville is an ideal guide through this complex historical moment, giving agency to obscure and better-known participants alike, and depicting the revolution as both a tragically lost opportunity and an ongoing source of inspiration.” \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly (★ \u003ci\u003eStarred Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“When one of the most marvelously original writers in the world takes on one of the most explosive events in history, the result can only be incendiary” Barbara Ehrenreich\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“To give a new generation of readers a fresh account of the great revolution, incorporating all the post-1989 archival discoveries and scholarly research, is a singularly daunting task. To render it in vivid, oracular prose, moving across the pages with the gathering force of a hurricane, is something that only China Miéville could achieve.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mike-davis\" title=\"Mike Davis\"\u003eMike Davis\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Elegantly constructed and unexpectedly moving.” Sheila Fitzpatrick, \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Miéville presents the action with his novelist’s eye … An intriguing march to revolution, told here with clarity and insight.” \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“There are delightful grace notes here over and above a brisk and perceptive narrative.” Stuart Kelly, \u003cem\u003eScotsman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Cinematic and vivid.” \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Readers will be satisfied that \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e gives them the literary equivalent of bearing witness to world history.” \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“It’s as if John Reed, author of the classic piece of revolutionary journalism, \u003ci\u003eTen Days That Shook the World\u003c\/i\u003e, woke from a decades-long sleep to tell the story of 1917 once again.” \u003cem\u003eCounterpunch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBest Summer Books of 2017\u003c\/i\u003e” \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Miéville sifts through the extraordinary disagreements, debates, and debacles that accompanied the Russian reds on every step of the road to revolution … He's especially evocative when he chronicles the scenes on the chaotic streets. But much of the value of October comes in his mastery of how the intricacies of human decision-making play out in Petrograd, Moscow, and beyond.” \u003cem\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“An exciting account of the revolutionary moment … well-argued and elegiac” \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“[An] engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century.” \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e, Miéville provides an introduction to one of the seminal events of the 20th century — the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty and the establishment of the world’s first communist state 100 years ago this year … It has all the makings of a novel, and Miéville’s narrative builds toward its crescendo as the Bolsheviks prepare to take power.” \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Miéville’s understanding of the intricacies and underlying absurdities of party politics is unmatched…A rich and compelling book.” \u003cem\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“This is a very fine book—in some ways, I believe, the best work that China Miéville has produced since the three thick volumes of the Bas-Lag trilogy. Indeed, \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e bears, in certain respects, a deeper affinity to those novels than to anything else he has published since; and it thus provides a convenient opportunity to take stock of the Miéville oeuvre to date … That [\u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e] is an excellent work of art there is no doubt whatever.” Carl Freedman, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Miéville, known for his extravagantly weird science fiction and fantasy, is a virtuosic storyteller; here he conjures a society convulsing on the verge of total transformation while staying squarely within the lines of the historical record. Reading this blow-by-blow account of revolution now, when political life is stranger than any fiction, is galvanizing.” Roger White, \u003cem\u003eArtsy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“There are workers, there are peasants, there are soldiers, there are parties, there are tsars, there are courtiers. Each of them bears his or her class position, his or her economic and other concerns, but it is the political field itself, how it hurls its protagonists into combat, combat with its own rules and norms, its own criteria for success and failure, that is front and center here. This may be the most textured, most concrete, account of what political contest and political combat, literal and metaphoric, feels like.” Corey Robin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e’s dramatic narrative makes the case that the effort is still worth it—that we must dare to dream, even if we risk conjuring more nightmares in this darkening world.” Alci Rengifo, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“As an outstanding piece of literature, China Miéville’s \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e belongs on the same shelf as John Reed’s eyewitness classic Ten Days That Shook the World, but even more it belongs in the hands of activists who will be shaking the world in the twenty-first century.” Paul Le Blanc, \u003cem\u003eInternational Socialist Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“There is interest in reading the story of ‘that violent and incomparable year’ told by one who hopes against hope that it could happen again.” Rob Doyle, \u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“China Miéville’s literary retelling—made to feel like a novel, but scrupulously sourced to real events—captures the vertigo of 1917’s encounter between massive historical forces, plunging us back into the heart of a far-reaching social upheaval, in which time flowed backward and forward even as it marched inexorably forward toward a future that was radically unknown.” David Sessions, \u003cem\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Even though you know the ending, this is a compulsive page-turner that makes the period come alive in rich, colourful detail. Although he is better known for his science fiction, Miéville’s eye here fleshes out both the spirit of revolution and the horrors that followed. His feelings are evidently complex, which leads to a narrative that draws out elements often left out of more traditional renderings of the Revolution.” \u003cem\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“A century on, the nature of the Russian Revolution remains hotly contested, both within and outside of leftist circles. Miéville, a master storyteller, makes a powerful case in his first nonfiction work that the Bolsheviks’ October success should not be disavowed as the onset of disaster but looked to as an inspirational moment in a grand narrative of human liberation.” \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“The story is old but Miéville retells it with verve and empathy. He brilliantly captures the tensions of coup and counter-coup and the kaleidoscope of coalitions that formed and then broke.” \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“An inspirational account that lends itself to troubled times.” \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e, by the British author China Miéville, is a gripping account of the Russian Revolution that offers the pleasures and rewards of a great novel … The book has vividly drawn characters, high drama, suspense, and an irresistible narrative momentum that sweeps the reader along from the first page to the tragic—but not inevitable—conclusion … a masterful work.” George de Stefano, \u003cem\u003ePop Matters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Miéville’s account of the events of 1917 in Petrograd is fast-paced, well-written, and eminently readable. 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