J. V. Stalin


THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
AND THE TACTICS
OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS

Preface to the Book "On the Road to October"



From J. V. Stalin, Problems of Leninism,
Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1976

pp. 117-59.


Based on J. V. Stalin, Works,
Foreign Languages Publishing House,
Moscow, 1953

Vol. 6, pp. 374-420.


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@cruzio.com (June 1997)

The present English edition of J. V. Stalin's Problems of Leninism corresponds to the eleventh Russian edition of 1952. The English translation up to page 766 (including the relevant notes at the end of the book) is taken from Stalin's Works, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1953-55, Vol. 6 and Vols. 8-13, while the rest is taken from the same publishers' 1953 edition of Problems of Leninism. Minor changes have been made in the translation and the notes.

    Volume and page references to Lenin's Works made in the text are to the third Russian edition. References to English translations are added, as footnotes, by the present publisher.




THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE TACTICS OF THE RUSSIAN
  COMMUNISTS.  Preface to the Book "On the Road to October"

 

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The External and Internal Setting for the October Revolution
Two Specific Features of the October Revolution -- or October and Trotsky's Theory of "Permanent" Revolution
Certain Specific Features of the Tactics of the Bolsheviks During the Period of Preparation for October
The October Revolution as the Beginning of and the Pre-condition for the World Revolution


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