October Revolution
The conquest of power
Ten Days that Shook the World
Chapter XI: The Conquest of Power
Declaration Of The Rights Of The Peoples Of Russia
…The first Congress of Soviets,...
The III International: Lenin’s great obsession
On the 100-year anniversary of the great Russian Revolution, it is necessary to study and draw all the lessons of its main achievement: the...
Top 10 books about the Russian Revolution
A century after the Bolsheviks seized power for communism, Tariq Ali chooses some of the best books about an uprising that changed the world...
Sovnarkom: Decree on the Hours of Labor
1. The working time or the number of working hours in a day is the time which, according to the agreement on employment (Articles...
Alexandra Kollontai: The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman
Prefatory Note
This is the first time that the complete autobiography which Alexandra Kollontai wrote in 1926 has been published. The sentences and paragraphs in...
The Battle for History | by Seumas Milne
Published in theguardian.com
12 September 2002
It would be easy to dismiss the controversy over the latest Martin Amis offering as little more than a...
How Lenin’s love of literature shaped the Russian Revolution
By Tariq Ali
25 March 2017
Literature shaped the political culture of the Russia in which Vladimir Ilyich Lenin grew up. Explicitly political texts...
Dostoevsky’s Century: Russia prepares its Revolution
'Crime and Punishment' 150 years on
By Victoria Drey
Dec 28, 2016
First published in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel about a St. Petersburg student who kills...
Nadezhda Krupskaya: How Lenin Studied Marx
Written: Unknown - 1933(?)
Published in www.marxists.org
OWING to the backwardness of industry in Russia, the workers' movement only began to develop in the nineties, when...
Marx and Russia
By Isaac Deutscher (1948)
The attitudes of Marx and Engels towards Russia and their views on the prospects of Russian revolution form a curious topic...