[1] Originally written to convince the proletariat of Russia to support the Bolsheviks, it became "an elementary textbook of communist knowledge".

The October Revolution overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave the power to the Soviets dominated by Bolsheviks.

was the date when the Winter Palace (the seat of the Provisional government located in Petrograd, the capital of Russia) was captured.

Preobrazhensky's co-authorship eventually became "half-forgotten", and The ABC soon became inextricably associated with Bukharin, spreading his fame and giving rise to his reputation.

A second English translation by Cedar and Eden Paul was published by the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1922.