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THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY

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of the Soviet Union
It is extremely difficult to disentangle the real significance of the Russian Revolution from the mythologies of both its enemies and its apologists. In this group of three lectures four experts in this field attempt a dispassionate evaluation of what is perhaps the most important event in modem history.
2: The Significance of the Russian Revolution by E. H. CARR
Professor Carr is concerned not so much with the ten days that shook the world in 1917 as with the world-shaking process of which they were the expression.' And he feels that in 1917 the era of the French Revolution ended and a new revolutionary epoch began.
November 5: L. P. Schapiro on The Impact of the Revolution
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E. H. Carr
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L. P. Schapiro
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