Description:
To millions throughout the world, the Russian workers' state offered new hope. People everywhere turned from the grim alternatives of a declining capitalism--unemployment, poverty, the threat of new wars--to place their hopes in the government that the soviets, councils of working people, put into power in Russia.
Brief description:
Anthony Arnove is the editor of several books, including Howard Zinn Speaks, Voices of a People's History of the United States, which he co-edited with Howard Zinn, and Voices of a People's History of the United States in the Twenty-First Century, which he co-edited with Haley Pessin. He also wrote the introduction for the new 35th anniversary edition of Zinn's classic book A People's History of the United States.