"Roots of Rebellion" by Victoria Bonnell

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"Victoria E. Bonnell. Roots of Rebellion: Workers' Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1900.1914. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.


One of the great paradoxes of Marxism and Communism is that the first Communist revolution and the first regime constructed on Marxist principles appeared not, as Marx had assumed, in the most advanced industrial countries .. in Britain, Germany, or perhaps the United States .. but in the vast, backward, semifeudal, barely industrialized empire of Russia. Marx, like other early theorists of socialism, viewed Russia as a land of peasants, not industrial workers. They thought of it as the champion of the old order and the enemy of progress, never as the place where their own ideas would first be tried."

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