Russian Revolution

By Mike Whitney March The United States has launched a three-pronged offensive on Russia. First, it’s attacking Russia’s economy via sanctions and oil-price manipulation. Second,...

By Andre Vltchek 08-03-2018 When it comes to Russia or the Soviet Union, reports and historical accounts do get blurry; in the West they do, and...

Soviets in Action First Published: October 1918 in The Liberator Transcription/Markup: Revolutionary History/Brian Baggins Online Version: John Reed Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2000 Through all the chorus of abuse...

Claudie Weill L'Homme et la société Année 1999 132-133 pp. 29-36 Fait partie d'un numéro thématique : Figures de l' « auto-émancipation » sociale...

Putin: Communist ideology similar to Christianity, Lenin’s body like saintly relics Russian President Vladimir Putin has likened communism to Christianity and Vladimir Lenin’s mausoleum in...

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 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” recounts a losing campaign against the emerging Stalin By Gary Bono January 22, 2016 I have previously written about the excellent and informative book,...

On 7 November 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. Exactly 100 years on, the Moscow Times asked its readers to take a photograph...

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...