The Russian Revolution and Us

Luciana Castellina celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution as the first real massive movement committed to removing the status quo, in accordance with the desire to erase class privileges. Far from being a rhetorical celebration, this essay sheds light on the revolutionary legacy of the Red October by trying to answer to these questions: Was the actual experience of the USSR the inevitable consequence of the Revolution, or was a different development possible? As an ideal model for the society we are fighting for, has communism died with the soviet failure