If we want to celebrate 1917 we must also look more deeply at what came after. There is much to celebrate there as well. This piece was originally written to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. By Michael Laxer The counter-revolution in the Soviet Union was a catastrophe for the forces of socialism and anti-imperialism both within the USSR and its republics, and internationally, including here in the allegedly advanced capitalist west. Despit