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There have been many books and potted histories of the Russian Revolution

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after the death of Lenin in 1924

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The First Ten Years of American Communism: Report of a Participant Subject_France draw on the marvelous traditionsA founding leader of the communist movement in the united States tells the story of the early years of the effort to build a proletarian party emulating the Bolshevik leadership of the October 1917 revolution in Russia. James P. Cannon was a traveling organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World before and during World War I and a leader of the working class left wing of the Socialist Party. Inspired by the Bolshevik revolution, Cannon joined