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Contents

Special Issue: The 100th Anniversary of the October Revolution

Articles

The October Revolution：A New Epoch in the World History

Li Shenming

One Hundred Years after the Russian Revolution: Looking Back and Looking Forward

David M. Kotz

The Historical Contribution of the October Revolution to the Economic and Social Development of the Soviet Union—Analysis of the Soviet Economic Model and the Causes of Its Dramatic End

Cheng Enfu and Liu Zixu

After October: Towards a Theory of the Socialist State

Roland Boer

October and the Theory of Communist Revolution: Social Creativity, Culture and Violence

Alexander Buzgalin

Novelties of the Soviet Constitutionalism: The Principle of Unity of Powers

Goran Marković

The October 1917 Revolution Started Off the Transformation of the World

Samir Amin

Concerned about Capitalist Development: Karl Marx and Max Weber on the Fate of Russia

Nicola D’Elia

Karl Kautsky and the Russian Revolution of 1905: A Debate on the Driving Forces and the Prospects of the Russian Revolution in the Second International

Paula Avila and Daniel Gaido

The Bolshevik Revolution and the Collapse of the Colonial System in India

Kalim Siddiqui