Description: When originally published in the Soviet Union in 1971, the publisher's advertising read: In October 1917 the working people of Russia, guided by Lenin, accomplished a socialist revolution. The peoples of economically backward Russia where, before the revolution, all power had belonged to the tsar, the bourgeoisie and the landowners, and where the downtrodden and illiterate peasants constituted the bulk of the population, overthrew the power of the oppressors and started building their own state - the Soviet Union. Over fifty years have passed since then. In this short period the Soviet Union has become a powerful socialist country with an up-to-date industry and conquests in outer space to its credit; it has become a country that knows no class antagonisms, no exploitation of man, racial hatred or social inequality. This book abounds in facts, names and figures. But it is not intended as a textbook or reference book. It is a narrative about the Soviet people, their life, work and struggles, a narrative about the people who carried out the revolution and built a socialist society, who upheld their freedom and independence in the Second World War and are now building communism confident in their ultimate success.

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