"The Russian Revolution and the Soviet State 1917 - 1921: Documents". Selected and Edited by Martin McCauley. L. 1975. "The Russian Revolution and the Soviet State in 1917-1921: documents". Compiled and edited by Martin mcgaley. The steady strengthening of the foreign policy authority of the Soviet Union and other countries of the socialist community, the growing global revolutionary process, and the growing influence of the ideas of scientific communism among the broad masses of working people in capitalist and developing countries compel bourgeois social scientists to return again and again to the study of the first victorious proletarian revolution in history. Most of the books and articles about the Great October Socialist Revolution published by Sovietologists have a pronounced tendentious character. Its role in world history is greatly downplayed. However, in the flow of this kind of literature, which has noticeably increased with the approach of the 60th anniversary of Soviet power, there are books and articles of a slightly different nature. Forced to admit that an event occurred in Russia in October 1917 that changed the entire course of world history, their authors abandoned sweeping anti-Sovietism. They distort and tendentiously cover not the revolution as a whole, but its individual aspects and events, while trying to give their works the appearance of scientific content. Among such works is a peer-reviewed book, authored, compiled and edited by M. Mcgaley, a lecturer in the course on state structure in Russia and the Soviet Union at the University of London. The book consists of 10 chapters, including mainly fragments from memoir literature, selections from articles published in Russian counter-revolutionary and Soviet newspapers of those years, some decisions of the Provisional Government and decrees of the Soviet government, etc.Mcgalley sets out his point of view on the history of our country in small introductions prefixed to each chapter. Outwardly ... Read more