{"product_id":"2026100009858-secondhand-in-the-workshop-of-the-revolution","title":"In The Workshop Of The Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: di - price clipped. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures witnessed the turbulent birth of Soviet Russia from as intimate a vantage point as Isaac Nachman Steinberg — and In the Workshop of the Revolution stands as his compelling firsthand account of those seismic years. As a Left Socialist-Revolutionary who served as People's Commissar of Justice under Lenin's revolutionary government, Steinberg chronicles the inner machinery of the Bolshevik state with the authority of a true insider, documenting the fierce ideological battles, moral compromises, and raw political violence that defined the revolution's earliest and most formative phase.\n\nThis remarkable memoir presents a rare and unflinching counterpoint to orthodox Soviet historiography, arguing that the revolution's descent into terror was neither inevitable nor justified. Steinberg's prose carries the weight of a man deeply disillusioned by what he saw, yet still animated by a sincere belief in socialist ideals — a tension that gives the work its extraordinary moral force. Writing from the perspective of a participant who ultimately broke with Lenin over the use of state coercion and the suppression of civil liberties, he leaves the reader to wrestle with a haunting question: at what point does a revolution begin to devour the very principles it was born to uphold?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203283329243,"sku":"2026100009858-SECONDHAND","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4f2dd692-ba65-4451-adf5-70237dfb7d53.png?v=1788147514","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009858-secondhand-in-the-workshop-of-the-revolution","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}