Moscow, Mysl Publishing House. 1976. 364 pages. The print run is 4000 copies. Price 1 rub. 68 kopecks. The leading role of the working class in the modern world revolutionary process, which was initiated by the Great October Socialist Revolution, especially the growing role of the working class in the construction of socialism and communism, as well as in the struggle for the national and social liberation of all peoples, contributes to increasing attention to the history of the working-class movement. Under the leadership of Academician B. N. Ponomarev, a large team of Soviet scientists is preparing a fundamental study, the first two volumes of which have already been published [1] and marked an important milestone in the development of Soviet historiography. This stimulated the expansion of the front and the deepening of research on the history of the international labor movement. Among the latest works devoted to the history of the struggle of the working class, a prominent place belongs to the book of Professor of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU, Doctor of Historical Sciences I. M. Krivoguz. In its main provisions, it coincides with the first volumes of the multi-volume work " International Labor Movement. Voprosy istorii i teorii", but differs from them not only in its scope, but also in the fact that the author has set himself a much more modest, though very important, task-to characterize the main periods of the international labor movement from its inception to October 1917 and to trace the general patterns of development of the working class struggle. He rightly attributes the beginning of the workers ' struggle against the bourgeoisie and other oppressors to the time of the birth of capitalism and the emergence of the wage - earners, the pre-proletariat. Emphasizing the significance of the Great October Socialist Revolution as the event that marked the beginning of the transformation of the proletariat into the ruling ... Read more