Rethinking Revolution Socialist Register 2017

What is the meaning of revolution in the twenty-first century? One hundred years ago, the events of October 1917 inspired socialists and oppressed peoples around the world, and it became an inevitable point of reference for twentieth-century politics. Today the Left needs to both come to terms with this legacy and to transcend it through a critical reappraisal of its broad effects -- those positive and negative -- on political, intellectual and cultural life.