How the communist revolution failed presented in a series of catastrophes. The communist
project in the twentieth century grew out of utopian desires to oppose oppression and abolish
class structures to give individual lives collective meaning. The attempts to realize these
ideals became a series of colossal failures. In Yesterday's Tomorrow Bini Adamczak examines
these catastrophes proceeding in reverse chronological order from 1939 to 1917. Adamczak
reflects on the Hitler-Stalin Pact the Great Terror of 1937 the failure of the European Left
to prevent National Socialism Stalin's rise to power and the bloody rebellion at Kronstadt
as she seeks a future that never happened.
