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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...
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...
Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt
by Eric Toussaint
23 October 2017
In February 1918, the repudiation of the debt by the Soviet government shocked international finance and sparked off unanimous condemnation...
Downplaying Nazi crimes to pursue Russophobia – Neocon revisionism hits Britain
By Neil Clark *
Photo: People at the annual procession commemorating the Latvian Waffen-SS (Schutzstaffel) unit in Riga, Latvia © Reuters / Reuters
We live in...
Raymond Challinor:Hitler’s Backbone was German Big Business
I think that Ian Kershaw’s biography of Hitler is the best so far to appear, but I am far from being as enthusiastic about...
Trotsky, the rise of Nazism and German- Soviet relations
by Jean P. Joubert
Can it be that there are eloquent silences in Trotsky's writings? The question may seem ridiculous, for, in truth, it seems...
America on the Brink of Nuclear War: Background to the North...
by William R. Polk
The US and North Korea are on the brink of hostilities that if begun would almost certainly lead to a nuclear...