The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism Author: Bertrand Russell Release Date: December 19, 2005 [EBook #17350] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOLSHEVISM *** Produced by Thierry Alberto, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Character set for HTML: ISO-8859-1 Transcriber's Note: A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of this document. Corrections listed in the existing Errata at the end of this book have been applied to the text, and shown with popups. The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism of Bolshevism Bertrand Russell LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C. 1 First published November 1920 Reprinted February 1921 (All rights reserved) [5] ToCPREFACE The Russian Revolution is one of the great heroic events of the world's history. It is natural to compare it to the French Revolution, but it is in fact something of even more importance.