The Great October Socialist Revolution

[The Vegan Marxist]

I'm truly interested in the small, descriptive details on how the Socialist revolution of 1917 played out. Is there any documentaries that does such or maybe a movie made that was pro-1917 socialist revolution?

[M-26-7]

If you want to know the details, try a book.

If you want something to fap to, try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO-5JEhRas4

[Fulanito de Tal]

Russian Revolution: From Tsarism to Bolshevism
by Jonathan Smele

I learned a lot from this audio book, but it very detailed and that's hard to pay attention to while driving. Anyway, I think it's a good source.

[x359594]

Unfortunately, I can't think of any documentary film that takes the day to day struggle as its subject.

But a really excellent book on the subject is The Russian Revolution: A Study in Mass Mobilization by John Keep.

[RED DAVE]

I'm truly interested in the small, descriptive details on how the Socialist revolution of 1917 played out. Is there any documentaries that does such or maybe a movie made that was pro-1917 socialist revolution?Two great books:

The moment of the seizure of power:

Ten Days That Shook the World (http://www.marxists.org/archive/reed/1919/10days/10days/)

The long and broad view by the leader of the actual seizure of power:

Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution (http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/index.htm)

RED DAVE

[yllwlvr]

Ten Days That Shook the World is an excellent suggestion.

the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik) Short Course would probably be another good source of information.

[graymouser]

The ISO put out a book by Alexander Rabinowitch called The Bolsheviks Come to Power (http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Bolsheviks-Come-to-Power) that had some fairly good detail on the lead-up to the revolution among the Bolshevik Party. It's not Trotsky's History for epic sweep and theoretical detail but it's pretty interesting as a picture of what was going on.

[Podeba]

The definitive, most comprehensive book on the Russian Revolution is "The Great October Socialist Revolution", ed. P. Sobolev, Progress Publishers, Moscow 1977.

[ComradeOm]

Russian Revolution: From Tsarism to Bolshevism
by Jonathan Smele

I learned a lot from this audio book, but it very detailed and that's hard to pay attention to while driving. Anyway, I think it's a good source.For those interested, I recently posted a free link to this audio book in this thread (http://www.revleft.com/vb/russian-revolution-audiobook-t144750/index.html). It doesn't go into too much detail on the events of 1917 itself but provides an excellent overview of the Revolution, it's origins, actors, and later historical interpretations. Recommended

Other than that, there are a host of suggestions in my sig. Rabinowitch's The Bolsheviks Come to Power is probably the best single account of the October Revolution. It's a seminal account of the Bolsheviks following the July Days (Prelude to Revolution brings the story up to this point) that I can't recommend highly enough

Ten Days that Shook the World is also well worth a read as a primary source. It shouldn't be treated as a historical account but it really conveys the sense of excitement and revolution in Petrograd at the time. For a single volume general history of the Revolution, Rex Wade's The Russian Revolution is probably the best introductory work available today

[Rakhmetov]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK6X9uC2o8k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mReH_vgrf-U&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd51pue58U0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQUAW_CdBds&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGE6T3SRNAs&feature=related



Reds starring Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Diane Keaton

The film starts with interviews of people who actually knew John Reed who wrote Ten Days that Shook The World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjjRDJ039FI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk0Zo3fx4JM&feature=related

[x359594]

...Reds starring Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Diane Keaton...The film starts with interviews of people who actually knew John Reed who wrote Ten Days that Shook The World...

But Reds shows very little about the day to day struggle of the people in the city and nothing at all about what took place in the countryside, not to mention that the St. Petersburg rising is inter cut with Reed and Louise Bryant making love.

The film's Marxist screenwriter Trevor Griffiths wanted his name removed after Beatty and uncredited script doctors re-wrote his original screenplay (called Comrades.) The original screenplay is supposed to be published soon.