A good review of two books on the topic:
Party and Class in Revolutionary Crises
Charlie Post
"Clearly, the Bolshevik experience of building an independent
organization of revolutionary workers and intellectuals, with almost
two decades of common practice in the class struggle, was a key
factor explaining the success of the Russian workers' revolution in
1917. The attempts to forge such organizations in Germany and the
rest of Europe 'on the fly' --- in the midst of the most sustained
wave of revolutionary workers’ struggles in the history of the
advanced capitalist world --- failed.
It should be clear, however, that the construction of that party in
Russia was not the product of the Bolsheviks’ theoretical
superiority to other left-wing social-democrats before 1914. Lenin
did not claim or develop an original 'theory of the party,' nor did
the Bolsheviks achieve programmatic-theoretical clarity on
revolutionary strategy in Russia."
<http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3119>
//Dave Z
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