This is the text (with sources added) of a December 4 presentation kicking off the third installment of Solidarity's online study group dealing with “Problems of Socialist Organization.”
Russia's revolution of 1917 resulted from the blend of terrible catastrophes and profound hopes. The First World War was going very badly for the Tsar's army and for the Russian people, adding new grievances to old, and generating a new wave of working-class radicalization. The tsarist system of (…)