*** The Russian Revolution in 1917

*** The Party

*** Lenin’s State and Revolution

**** Working Bodies

**** Election, Recall, etc.

**** Elimination of bureaucracy

**** Elimination of separate armed forces

*** Year One of the Revolution – Summation

*** Ideological Roots

*** Excuses, excuses, excuses…

**** Civil War

**** Economic disruption

**** The Disappearing and Declassing of the working class

**** Isolation

*** Latter-day rationales…

*** No Alternative?

*** Conclusions