Module 2: How Revolutions are Born

Class: Bolshevik Revolution

Date & Time: Thursday, July 16, 6:30-8:30PM EST

Description: 

October 1917 marked what was one of the most significant revolutions of humanity: the Bolshevik Revolution. Against the backdrop of the devastation of World War 1, which claimed the lives of approximately 18 million people, and left millions of Russians demanding peace, land and bread,  Lenin exposed the war’s imperialist nature and instead, urged for the working class take advantage of a weakened capitalist class in crisis and instead, to assert their interests through class struggle. Lenin’s adept application of Marxism provided a strategic blueprint for the working class to achieve victory, providing lessons that have resonated and have been adapted across liberation movements in the struggle to build working class power, even a century later

Facilitator: Jodi Dean,  American political theorist and Political Science professor