Leftword Books Red october, paperback/vijay prashad

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The first socialist state in history lasted only seventy years.

This is a very small period of time in the scope of world history.

Its achievements have been pilloried - its demise being the greatest argument against its achievements.

But merely because it disappeared does not mean that it was without merit.

It provides us with the assurance that a workers and peasants' state can exist, that it can create policies to benefit the vast masses of the people rather than merely the rich, that it can .