Bettelheim Charles. Class Struggles in the USSR, First Period: 1917-1923

Monthly Review Press, 1976. — 581 p.Introduction to the “first period”.
The October Revolution and the establishment of Soviet power.
Soviet power and the transformation of class relations between 1917 and 1921.
The transformation of the principal instruments of the proletarian dictatorship.
The ideological and political struggles inside the Bolshevik Party.
The balance sheet of five years of revolution and the prospects on eve of Lenin’s death.