Thursday, 21 November , 2024

Lenin Vladimir

Keynes, Hobson, Marx | by Robert Skidelsky

October 10, 2012 I. President Lyndon Johnson asked John Kenneth Galbraith to write him a speech on economic policy. After glancing at it LBJ said 'You...

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...

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...

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...

E. Germain (Mandel) The Marxist Theory of Imperialism and its Critics

(August 1955) From Two Essays on Imperialism, New York 1966. Note by D.D.P.: In reality Ernest Germain and Ernest Mandel are one person. Germain is one...

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...