Owing to the dearth of written history on the topic, it may come as a surprise to learn that the issue of disability figured quite prominently in the socialist workers' revolution of 1917 in Russia. In fact, disability was such a central component to the entirety of the revolutionary process that the history itself is a proof of the following Marxist-derived principle: The liberation of disabled people is impossible without the liberation of the entire working class, and the liberation of the entire working class is impossible without the liberation of disabled people.