left communists supported the russian revolution, but did not accept the methods of the bolsheviks. many of the german-dutch tradition adopted rosa luxemburg's criticism as outlined in her posthumously published essay entitled "the russian revolution". in this essay, she rejected the bolshevik position on distribution of land to the peasantry and their espousal of the right of nations to self-determination which she rejected as historically outmoded. the italian left communists did not at the time accept any of these criticisms and both currents would evolve.