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"French revolution" may seem exaggerated. That is precisely how a revolution springs into being. The strikers are seizing factories for the duration of the strike, establishing control over the bosses and their staffs. Yet under the influence of these "non-political" strikes the entire political situation in the country is being radically transformed. Trade ununionism and reactionary syndicalism bend all efforts to keep the working-class movement within the framework of crafts. This struggle must be consummated either in the greatest of victories or the most ghastly of defeats.

Provides information on the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia from 1917 to 1921. Action taken by the Left Bolsheviks to refute the premise about the bourgeois character of the revolution; Efforts by Vladimir Lenin to communicate his revolutionary plans; Establishment of the Russian Communist Party; Struggle between the old Bolsheviks and Lenin for power.

The article recalls the social and political revolution in Russia on February 27, 1917. The leaders of workers' unions demanded fire arms from the Petrograd Committee. Political prisoners including the group of the Military and Industrial Committee and Petrograd Committee members were released by the people from the jails. Revolutionary leaders captured the police stations and destroyed the hiding places of anti-revolutionists.