The Revolution Besieged: Lenin 1917 - 1923 (Vol. 3)

When Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik party led the first successful workers revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work was finished with the overthrow of capitalism in Russia. As the fledgling workers' state was gripped by a civil war, the revolution's leaders remained steadfast in their commitment to spreading their successes across all of Europe.

Tony Cliff (1917 2000) spent his life developing revolutionary Marxism against Stalinism. From his early days as a rev...