An exploration of the impact of the October Revolution on the U.S. is presented in the webinar Scientific Socialism: 100 years of struggle. Featured is a discussion of Philip Foner’s The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Impact on American Radicals, Liberals, and Labor led by Dr. Gerald Horne.
With intellectuals like W.E.B. Du Bois, exclaiming in the wake of the October Revolution, “If what I have seen is Bolshevism, I am a Bolshevik!” and journalists such as Lincoln Steffens declaring, “I have seen the future and it works,” Horne explores the revolution’s impact on the broader outlines of U.S. culture with particular attention to the labor movement and African Americans.
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