Bolcheviques
Paco Ignacio Taibo II

NONFICTION | 2019 | 383 pages

Winner of the Francisco Javier Clavijero National History Prize

This is the story of a group of militants who aspired to be the vanguard of the working class and failed. It is also the story of an illusion—the Russian Revolution as seen in the Valley of Anáhuac, when it was actually thousands of kilometers away.

Thus begins Bolcheviques, a revision and chronicle of the history of the Mexican Communist Party—its origins, ideals, struggles, and failures. A narrative history of the protagonists of Mexican socialism, unionism, equality, and the social and political commitment of the nameless workers and peasants who, brimming with hope and thoughts of a utopia, made possible changes that profoundly transformed the society of our country.

This new, expanded, and updated edition incorporates the works, documents, and research published since its first edition in 1986. Bolcheviques rescues the living memory of a past that is essential for understanding the present and facing the future.

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