The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most decisive and tumultuous events in world history. The Russian Bolshevik Party played a central role in this revolution. In this book, Tony Cliff examines the formation of the Bolshevik Party and particularly the work of one of its main architects, Lenin.
He presents the battles Lenin fought to transform Marxist ideas for socialist revolution into practical everyday action, and the even more difficult battle he fought to turn isolated study groups into a unified organization.