The road to Bolshevism: how a new start came from exile
Eighth in a series of articles around the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) O ur Differences is the generative text of the working-class political movement that conquered state power in Russia in October 1917. In it Georgi Plekhanov expounded his analysis of Russian society in the form of a devastating and systematic examination of populism in all its sub-sections, Lavrovist, Bakuninist and Blanquist alike. It is one of the great books of revolutionary Marxism. It was published in 1885, from exile in Switzerland, as Plekhanov’s summing up of the new working-class...