Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 12, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780199245130
First sentence: In October 1917, Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power promising a radically new type of participatory democratic state based on the soviets, the elected workers' and soldiers' councils which had emerged in Russia since February.