Ebook: World revolution, 1917-1936: the rise and fall of the Communist International

Marxism -- The forerunners of the Third International -- The war and the Russian Revolution -- The failure of the World Revolution and the foundation of the International -- Lenin and socialism -- Stalin and socialism -- Stalin kills the 1923 revolution -- The Kulak and the British General Council -- Stalin ruins the Chinese revolution -- The platform and the five-year plan -- Industry and the plan -- "After Hitler, our turn" -- The great retreat -- The revolution abandoned -- A Fourth International the only hope -- Appendix on Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Soviet Communism.