La Revolución Rusa by Rosa Luxemburg

A pointed analysis of the 1917 upheaval that applauds its bold break with war and landlordism while warning that suppressing freedom of the press, assembly, and party pluralism—and dissolving the Constituent Assembly—undermined socialist democracy. It argues that the revolution’s lifeblood is the self-activity of the working class and broad civil liberties, cautions against substituting party or bureaucracy for mass participation, situates many errors in Russia’s backwardness and international isolation, and insists that only international advance can preserve and deepen the gains achieved.

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