How do you relate the Great October Socialist Revolution to the situation in the United States today?
JB: In my presentation, what I mainly tried to do was draw the lessons to be learned from from the Great October Revolution, particularly the ideas that emerged from the Revolution and during the build-up to the Revolution, which are embodied in the writings of Lenin and other Marxist theoreticians at that time, and discuss how they are applicable to our own situation here. I also talked about the general experience of the Communist movement for the past 90 years, about the lessons we have drawn not only from the Revolution itself and the Soviet process of transformation, but also from the building of socialism, both the positives and negatives, the achievements as well as the mistakes that were made, including the mistakes that led to the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. For example, one of the lessons our Party has drawn is that there are no models for socialism, that socialism is different in every country, and that the model the Russian working class de
