Spiridonova - Armed Love

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In Russia in October 1917 the Bolsheviks could rule only in coalition with left socialist revolutionaries who's charismatic leader Maria Spiridonova was the equal of Lenin. Till April 1918 they maintained a fragile alliance but by June an uprising was inevitable and the outcome uncertain.

Spiridonova maps those few months as tension grows and the divide between Leninism and a more libertarian socialism becomes starker......and fixed in history. Spiridonova is awash with assassins, plotters, anarchists, bomb throwers and vast rallies...