Tuesday, 23 April , 2024

Russian Revolution

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

A POPULAR OUTLINE Written: January-June, 1916 Contents PREFACE  187 PREFACE TO THE FRENCH AND GERMAN EDITIONS  189 I. CONCENTRATION OF PRODUCTION AND MONOPOLIES  196 II. BANKS AND THEIR NEW...

The Russian Revolution: A Verso Reading List

One hundred years on from the Russian Revolution we look back at the events that turned the world upside down and how they resonate...

Leon Trotsky: Twenty Years After 1905

A speech by Leon Trotsky (December 1925) This is a speech made by Leon Trotsky on 26 December 1925 and reproduced in the Soviet newspaper,...

The War will provoke Revolution! The Durnovo memorandum to the Tsar

In the following Memorandum addressed to the Tsar in February 1914, the ex-Interior Minister Pyotr Nikolayevich Durnovo predicts with what happened in 1917 with...

Socialism, Land and Banking

2017 compared to 1917 By Michael Hudson October 19, 2017 Socialism a century ago seemed to be the wave of the future. There were various schools of...

Poll shows almost half of Russians believe October Revolution reflected majority...

At the same time, 92% of Russians consider a new revolution in Russia as unacceptable OSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. Forty-five percent of Russians believe that...

The October 1917 Revolution started off the transformation of the world...

The aim of this chapter, written especially for the 100th anniversary of the October 1917 Revolution, is certainly not to denigrate this first gigantic...

100 years on from the Russian Revolution, could a 21st century...

Since 1917, countless social movements have taken their cue from this momentous uprising, and its lasting impact on the world may yet to be felt fully By...

Long Live Great October Revolution!

100 years of screwing imperialism! By Andre Vltchek   The world is in ruins. It is literally burning, covered by slums, by refugee camps, and its great...

Bolsheviks Seize Power

Subject essay: Lewis Siegelbaum The Bolshevik seizure of power in Petrograd in October 1917 was celebrated for over seventy years by the Soviet government as...