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The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

by Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)

17 chapters, about 35,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE 500 words
2. WHAT IS HOPED FROM BOLSHEVISM 1,900 words
3. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS 2,500 words
4. LENIN, TROTSKY AND GORKY 1,800 words
5. ART AND EDUCATION 5,700 words
6. COMMUNISM AND THE SOVIET CONSTITUTION 1,600 words
7. THE FAILURE OF RUSSIAN INDUSTRY 2,300 words
8. DAILY LIFE IN MOSCOW 1,300 words
9. TOWN AND COUNTRY 1,500 words
10. INTERNATIONAL POLICY 2,400 words
11. THE MATERIALISTIC THEORY OF HISTORY 1,800 words
12. DECIDING FORCES IN POLITICS 1,100 words
13. BOLSHEVIK CRITICISM OF DEMOCRACY 2,400 words
14. REVOLUTION AND DICTATORSHIP 2,200 words
15. MECHANISM AND THE INDIVIDUAL 1,600 words
16. WHY RUSSIAN COMMUNISM HAS FAILED 2,500 words
17. CONDITIONS FOR THE SUCCESS OF COMMUNISM 2,000 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Bolshevism
• Communism
• Nationalism
• Policy
• Revolution
• Russian Revolution

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