Originally published as a pamphlet in 1970, Maurice Brinton's The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control presents a concise yet brilliant historical critique of revolutionary Russia from the year 1917 to 1921, from the Bolshevik's ascension to state power, up to--and in the aftermath of--Lenin and Trotsky's lethal suppression of the 1921 Kronstadt Uprising. This small volume offers a critical understanding of the history of the Russian Revolution that has too often been obscured by romanticized Leninist revision. With devastating documentation and attention to detail, Brinton's writing exposes the Bolshevik counter-revolution and its hostile resentment toward the self-mobilization of the Russian working class. Additionally, Brinton's work illuminates crucial distinctions between workers' self-management of industry and workers control (an alternate idea coined by the Bolshevik dictatorship). In this way, his work asserts and defends the revolutionary idea that the working class itself can govern the affairs of society, outside of the authority of any state power or ruling class whatever its name or form.

The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control 1917-1921: The State and Counter-Revolution

History

Maurice Brinton

Military

On Our Own Authority! Publishing

The Commune: Paris, 1871, is a new collection of critical reflections on the Paris Commune by classic anarchist and libertarian-socialist authors like Louise Michel, William Morris, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin,Voltairine de Cleyre, Alexander Berkman and Maurice Brinton. These writings seek the illuminate the place of the Commune within the global history of working people's resistance to exploitation and domination, and investigate its implications for the future of revolutionary struggle. Compiled and edited with a foreword by Andrew Zonneveld.

The Commune: Paris, 1871

Voltairine de Cleyre

Peter Kropotkin

Louise Michel

Mikhail Bakunin

Alexander, Berkman

William, Morris

Europe

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