Russian Revolution
Political Hope in Search of an Agent
The third in a seven-part, multi-week series of commentary on the COVID-19 crisis
This is the third in a seven-part, multi-week series of commentary on...
The American Invasion of Russia in 1918
By Carlton Meyer Posted on
December 20, 2019
President Woodrow Wilson dispatched 5000 American troops to northern Russia and 8000 troops to Siberia without seeking approval...
#Lenin150: The Man Who Theorized and Practiced Revolution
By Ingar Solty
April 22, 2020
You who are building, twenty meters high and on top the trade-union’s
palace, Ilyich’s statue, do not forget in his boot...
“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 Soviet Century” by the Soviet-born historian Moshe Lewin, but...
Lenin’s Testament
"Last Testament"
Letters to the Congress
Written: December 1922 - January 1923
First Published: 1956 in Kommunist (No. 9)
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Volume 36 (p. 593-611)
Online Version:...
Leon Trotsky: Lenin (1925)
Transcriber’s Notes
This transcription of Leon Trotsky’s 1925 Lenin came about through a donation from the personal archives of Asher and Ruth Harer in San...
What Was Lenin Thinking?
By Tariq Ali
April 3, 2017
LONDON — What was Vladimir Lenin thinking on the long journey to Petrograd’s Finland Station in 1917?
Like everyone else, he...
Why Was Lenin’s Body Preserved?
By Andrei Tapalaga
Jan 17, 2020
Vladimir Ilich Lenin is still considered to this day the father of communism for how the Soviet union evolved around...
Tariq Ali on Lenin, Engels, Palestinians and Nasser
Talking Lenin with Tariq Ali – I
Raza Naeem sat down with one of the most influential leftists of our world today to discuss politics,...
Putin promised to keep Lenin’s body in Moscow mausoleum, communists say
2 Aug, 2017
The head of the Russian Communist Party has said that Vladimir Putin promised him that as long as he remains president, Vladimir...