The First Ten Years of American Communism: Report of a Participant Subject_France after the death of Lenin

after the death of Lenin in 1924

and Alan Woods

There have been many books and potted histories of the Russian Revolution

this book is not simply a dramatic narrative

The First Ten Years of American Communism: Report of a Participant Subject_France after the death of LeninA founding leader of the communist movement in the united States tells the story of the early years of the effort to build a proletarian party emulating the Bolshevik leadership of the October 1917 revolution in Russia. James P. Cannon was a traveling organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World before and during World War I and a leader of the working class left wing of the Socialist Party. Inspired by the Bolshevik revolution, Cannon joined