October Revolution
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...
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...