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The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

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First published: 1920
Pages: 109

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Preface
9:17
What Is Hoped For From Bolshevism
14:01
General Characteristics
16:30
Lenin, Trotsky and Gorky
13:18
Art and Education
41:42
Communism and the Soviet Constitution
13:53
The Failure of Russian Industry
18:03
Daily Life in Moscow
11:10
Town and Country
11:54
International Policy
19:32
The Materialistic Theory of History
13:48
Deciding Forces in Politics
9:19
Bolshevik Criticism of Democracy
18:15
Revolution and Dictatorship
16:50
Mechanism and the Individual
12:29
Why Russian Communism Has Failed
21:42
Conditions for the Success of Communism
18:09

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In 1920 Bertrand Russell travelled to Soviet Russia with a British delegation, met Lenin, and came home deeply uneasy about what he had seen. This book is the record of that reckoning. Russell separates the theory of Bolshevism, which he treats seriously as an heir to nineteenth-century socialism, from its practice under the new regime, which he found harsh, dogmatic, and contemptuous of liberty. Written by a man broadly sympathetic to socialism, the critique carried real weight and unsettled many on the left. He warns that revolution pursued by force tends to reproduce the tyranny it set out to destroy. Remarkably prescient about the Soviet experiment, it is free to download as a PDF or EPUB.

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and social critic, and a founder of analytic philosophy. A tireless public intellectual, he wrote on everything from mathematical logic to pacifism and won the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature.