Thursday, 25 April , 2024

Russian Revolution

Why the West Cannot Stomach Russians

By Andre Vltchek 08-03-2018 When it comes to Russia or the Soviet Union, reports and historical accounts do get blurry; in the West they do, and...

John Reed: How the Soviets were really functioning in the beginning

Soviets in Action First Published: October 1918 in The Liberator Transcription/Markup: Revolutionary History/Brian Baggins Online Version: John Reed Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2000 Through all the chorus of abuse...

La revue Autogestion comme observatoire des mouvements d’émancipation

Claudie Weill L'Homme et la société Année 1999 132-133 pp. 29-36 Fait partie d'un numéro thématique : Figures de l' « auto-émancipation » sociale...

Titlos Putin on Lenin, Communism and Christianity

Putin: Communist ideology similar to Christianity, Lenin’s body like saintly relics Russian President Vladimir Putin has likened communism to Christianity and Vladimir Lenin’s mausoleum in...

Early Soviet Films – a portrait of revolutionary Russia

Remarkable collection of early Soviet films on DVD: The New Man—Awakening and Everyday Life in Revolutionary Russia By Bernd Reinhardt 29 December 2017 A notable...

The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin

The senior historian of the Soviet Union presents a powerful and original analysis of the warring between Lenin and Stalin and the collapse of...

Lenin’s Last Struggle

“Lenin’s Last Struggle” recounts a losing campaign against the emerging Stalin By Gary Bono January 22, 2016 I have previously written about the excellent and informative book,...

Forged by revolution: a day in the life of Russia –...

On 7 November 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. Exactly 100 years on, the Moscow Times asked its readers to take a photograph...

Lenin and Keynes

HISTORICAL EXPERIMENTS Two dissimilar men with different goals can still have a lot in common, writes Prabhat Patnaik At first sight no two persons could have...

Lenin and World Revolution

Lenin and world revolution Volume II Review by Paul D'Amato Lenin’s Political Thought: Theory and Practice in the Democratic and Socialist Movement By Neil Harding Review of Vol. 2 THE SECOND...