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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1917 was the year that the U.S. entered World War I; V. I. Lenin returned from exile to successfully lead the Russian Revolution; Russian women got the right to vote; and British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour called for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.


Significant Book of 1917:
Vladimir I. Lenin's The State and Revolution

BOOK Written during a brief exile from Russia, before Lenin came to power, THE STATE AND REVOLUTION is important both as a historical and political document of Bolshevism in the revolutionary era.

  Significant Music of 1917:
 The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's Livery Stable Blues

BOOK The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, five spirited musicians from the Big Easy, cut the first jazz recording ever. "Livery Stable Blues" introduced the music's new rhythms and infectious collective improvisation to a wider audience.




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