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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,...
The End of Bolsheviks: From Triumph to Tragedy
Publishe at en.wikipedia.org
Great Purge
This article is about the 1936–38 Soviet purge. For the general article about political purges, see Purge.
The Great Purge or the...
How Xi Jinping’s presidency was shaped by traumas of Mao and...
Centrist approach to reform of China’s society and party comes from study of where two communist leaders went wrong
By Simon Denyer
Friday 6 March 2015
To...
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...
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...