The Russian Revolution: How the Bolsheviks Came to Power

This is the second installment of the Spartacus Youth Club Spring Class Series at SFSU. The readings for this class are:

“The Russian Revolution of 1917—From the February Revolution to the July Days,” parts 1 & 2, Workers Vanguard Nos. 874 & 875 (4 August 2006 & 1 September 2006)
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/874/russrev.html
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/875/russianrev.html

“The Russian Revolution of 1917—From the Kornilov Coup to the October Revolution,” parts 1 & 2, Workers Vanguard Nos. 877 & 879 (29 September 2006 & 27 October 2006)
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/877/russrev.html
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/879/russrev.html

“The Development and Extension of Leon Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution,” Part One (Spartacist Pamphlet)
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/901/permrev.html

Leon Trotsky, The Lessons of October, Chapters 2 & 3
http://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/archive/rgroups/2007-08-chicago/trotskyoctober.pdf

Also Recommended:

Leon Trotsky, The Lessons of October (entire)


The Spartacus Youth Club intervenes into social struggles armed with the revolutionary internationalist program of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky. We work to mobilize youth in struggle as partisans of the working class, championing the liberation of black people, women and all the oppressed. We fight to win youth to the perspective of building the Leninist vanguard party that will lead the working class in socialist revolution, laying the basis for a world free of capitalist exploitation and imperialist slaughter. The SYC is the youth auxiliary of the Spartacist League, a Marxist organization, which publishes the bi-weekly newspaper Workers Vanguard.