Russian Revolution
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...
How Lenin’s love of literature shaped the Russian Revolution
By Tariq Ali
25 March 2017
Literature shaped the political culture of the Russia in which Vladimir Ilyich Lenin grew up. Explicitly political texts...
Dostoevsky’s Century: Russia prepares its Revolution
'Crime and Punishment' 150 years on
By Victoria Drey
Dec 28, 2016
First published in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel about a St. Petersburg student who kills...
Nadezhda Krupskaya: How Lenin Studied Marx
Written: Unknown - 1933(?)
Published in www.marxists.org
OWING to the backwardness of industry in Russia, the workers' movement only began to develop in the nineties, when...
Marx and Russia
By Isaac Deutscher (1948)
The attitudes of Marx and Engels towards Russia and their views on the prospects of Russian revolution form a curious topic...
V. I. Lenin: Lessons of the Commune
March 23, 1908
After the coup d état, which marked the end of the revolution of 1848, France fell under the yoke of the Napoleonic...
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...
Imperialist Anti-Capitalism?
By Radhika Desai
Abstract:
The Russian Revolution broke out amidst a world war between imperial countries and a critical part of its legacy lies in...
N.A. Berdyaev: Spirits of the Russian Revolution
We are lost. What are we to do?
Into the field the devil evidently doth take us,
Spinning us round and round...
Peculiarities of Russia’s Development
From Leon Trotsky's "History of the Russian Revolution"
The fundamental and most stable feature of Russian history is the slow tempo of her development, with...