October and Perestroika: the Revolution Continues.

GORBACHEV, Mikhail.

Item Number: 114907

Moscow: Novosi Press Agency Publishing House, 1987.

First edition of Mikhail Gorbachev’s report delivered at the 70th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution Jubilee. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Mikhail Gorbachev on the title page. In near fine condition.

Led by Vladimir Lenin in 1917, The October Revolution, commonly referred to as the Red October, was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. Led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces, the slogan of the October revolution was All Power to the Soviets, meaning all power to grassroots democratically elected councils. The revolution marked the inception of the first communist government in Russia, and thus the first large-scale socialist state in world history. After this, Russia became the Russian SFSR and, later, part of the USSR, which dissolved in late 1991.