Maurice Brinton

The Bolsheviks and

Workers' Control

The State and Counter-Revolution

Published: As pamphlet by Solidarity, London 1970

Transcribed: by Jonas Holmgren

Proofed: by Zdravko Saveski

The Bolsheviks and Workers Control is a remarkable pamphlet exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic Leninist "history" of the relationship between the working class and their party during these years (1917-21) but it also provides a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed in the way it did. From this understanding flows alternative possibilities of revolutionary organization and some 40 years after the original was written this is perhaps its greatest contribution today. For this reason alone this text deserves the greatest possible circulation and we encourage you to link to it.

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