October Revolution In Prospect And Retrospect: Interventions In Russian And Soviet History: Historical Materialism, Volume 37

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In a series of probing analytical essays, John Marot tracks the development of Bolshevism through the prism of pre-1917 intra-Russian Social Democratic controversies in politics and philosophy. For 1917, the author presents a critique of social historical interpretation of the Russian Revolution.

John Eric Marot, Ph.D. (1987), University of California, Los Angeles, teaches History at Keimyung University in Korea. He has published many articles on Russian and Soviet History, notably "Class Conflict, Political Competition, and Social Transformation: Critical Perspectives on the Social History of the Russian Revolution" (Revolutionary Russia, 1994) and "Trotsky, the Left Opposition, and the Rise of the Stalinism: Theory and Practice" (Historical Materialism, 2006)