USSR
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...
Downplaying Nazi crimes to pursue Russophobia – Neocon revisionism hits Britain
By Neil Clark *
Photo: People at the annual procession commemorating the Latvian Waffen-SS (Schutzstaffel) unit in Riga, Latvia © Reuters / Reuters
We live in...
The cost of an enormous mistake: USSR won but at a...
The human cost of the Great Patriotic War was immense, as people gave their all to save their homeland. Even as millions of lives...
Trotsky, the rise of Nazism and German- Soviet relations
by Jean P. Joubert
Can it be that there are eloquent silences in Trotsky's writings? The question may seem ridiculous, for, in truth, it seems...
There’s a place in Russia more dangerous than Chernobyl
By Boris Egorov
Lake Karachay is the most polluted place on Earth. Now sealed off, it was once a dumping ground for nuclear waste -...