{"product_id":"bloodstained-one-hundred-years-of-leninist-counterrevolution-9781849352963","title":"Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrevolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, paeans to the conquering Bolsheviks will be sung. \u003ci\u003eBloodstained\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the darker echoes coming from that event, with a mixture of classic and new essays that expose a murderous dictatorship as it developed, paving the way for Stalin, Mao, Castro, and others to slaughter and starve their opponents. The defense of this criminal enterprise, later categorized as \"actually existing socialism,\" ends here. No more velvet-gloved hagiography. No more Lenins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes essays from Mark Leier, Barry Pateman, Alexander Berkman, Iain McKay, Herman Gorter, Rudolf Rocker, Luigi Fabbri, Maurice Brinton, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFriends of Aron Baron: A group of radical thinkers critical of the role Lenin's influence has had on the theory and strategy of social change. Named after Aron Baron, a Russian revolutionary hunted and haunted by the Bolshevik terror who was executed on August 12th, 1937. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIain Mackay: Iain Mckay is a union activist, writer, editor, and translator. He contributes articles to the anarchist press worldwide and edited \u003ci\u003eProperty is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Reader\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDirect Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e for AK Press). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBarry Pateman: Barry Pateman a former associate editor at the Emma Goldman Papers at the University of California Berkeley and wrote the introduction to AK Press's \u003ci\u003eChomsky on Anarchism\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMark Leier: Mark Leier teaches at Simon Fraser University and is author of \u003ci\u003eBakunin: The Creative Passion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50475933368594,"sku":"9781849352963","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8a2e5480-3391-415f-902c-53961eb5ba7f.jpg?v=1730240756","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bloodstained-one-hundred-years-of-leninist-counterrevolution-9781849352963","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}