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The German Revolution and the Debate on Soviet Power

Prologue by V.I. Lenin, photos, maps, notes, chronology, glossary, index. 

Appendix: Program of the Russian Communist Party.

Format: Paper

772 Pages

Edition: 1st

Year: 1986

Publisher: Pathfinder Press

ISBN: 9780873489171

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Documents, 1918-1919; Preparing the Founding Congress

By Leon Trotsky,  Rosa Luxemburg,  V. I. Lenin, 

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