In October 1917 proletarian masses overthrew the bourgeois government in Russia and took power in the guidance of Bolsheviks. Big factories and working class neighbourhoods had already been under the control of committees formed by workers for months. On 25 October all power was passed to soviets (workers’ assemblies) formed by workers as organs of insurrection. These soviets did not remain just as organs of insurrection but they also became organs of power. The nascent workers’ state was...