Just a reminder that Monday’s talk will be at Pushkin House not at SSEES as previously stated.
Monday 8th October 2018, at Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A2TA at 1830 for 1900. THIS TALK IS CO-SPONSORED BY UCL SSEES.
The Bolsheviks came to power in October 1917 promising to build socialism. All factions within the party and its followers agreed with this; but what was socialism and how did you build it? This lecture will look at the debates within the party on this question before and during the revolution and the Civil War. It will concentrate on the ideas of Lenin and those of the so-called Left Bolsheviks, chiefly Bogdanov, Lunacharsky and Kollantai, and will examine the differences between them over what socialism entailed and the methods to be used for achieving it. AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE.