The Bolsheviks And Workers' Control
Maurice Brinton

The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control is an impressive array of documentation from 1917-1921, revealing the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and bringing to bear on how the Bolshevik State related to the question of self-management in revolutionary Russia. This classic text has two inter-related aims: to contribute new factual material to the discussions on workers' control, and to attempt an analysis of the fate of the Russian Revolution. An important read for anyone who seeks a historical understanding of the question of participatory democracy and popular control. 

Maurice Brinton (1923–2005) was a largely influential leftist writer and intellectual. Born Christopher Agamemnon Pallis, he wrote under multiple pen names over the course of his life. He was a prominent member of Solidarity, a libertarian socialist organisation that operated from 1960 to 1992 in the UK, where he wrote some of his most important works. 

Praise for The Bolsheviks And Workers' Control

"The Bolsheviks and Workers Control is a remarkable pamphlet exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic Leninist "history" of the relationship between the working class and their party during these years (1917-21) but it also provides a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed in the way it did. From this understanding flows alternative possibilities of revolutionary organization and some 40 years after the original was written this is perhaps its greatest contribution today. For this reason alone this text deserves the greatest possible circulation." - marxists.org

1970: 86 pages

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