Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BĚLIČEK Ondřej , BUDRAITSKIS Ilya
When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022 the launch of a “special operation” aimed at neutralizing the Ukrainian government, he also argued that Ukraine had been taken over by the Nazis. Throughout the duration of the war in Ukraine, Putin has invoked the spirit of (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Presentation at the Trotsky Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico City, August 23, 2024.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and Lev Davidovich Bronstein have been known to most of the world by their aliases from the revolutionary underground: Lenin and Trotsky. The very core of their identities is bound up with their (…)
, by BASU Anjan
Seventy-eight years ago on August 21, an assassin’s hatchet snuffed out the life of Leon Trotsky in his last refuge on the planet.
[The publication of this article in The Wire is important for the Indian militant left. ESSF]
While convalescing in an Oslo hospital in September-October, 1935 (…)
, by MURPHY Kevin
A century after Lenin’s death, scholars and leftists continue to discuss the life and legacy of the leader of the Russian Revolution. But a fundamental question remains largely unanswered. What did Soviet citizens themselves think of Lenin?
We get some sense of an answer to this question in (…)
, by PHIPPS Mike
Mike Phipps reviews Communist Dissidents in Early Soviet Russia: Five documents translated and introduced by Simon Pirani, published by Matador
The Russian Revolution has probably been more analysed, discussed and argued about than any other social revolution in history. Leon Trotsky’s (…)
, by PIRANI Simon
This book gives voice to Russian communists who participated in the 1917 revolution, but found themselves at odds with the Communist party as it consolidated its rule in the early 1920s. One Red army veteran demands action against corrupt officials; another mourns the dashed hopes of 1917 and (…)
, by HENSMAN Rohini
Given his prominence as a high-ranking Bolshevik, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev is very little known. This is partly because he was cut off early in his career by persecution and ultimate execution in Stalin’s purges and his writings suppressed for decades, but also due to distortion and lack of (…)
, by GORDEEVA Irina
Who were the dissident pacifists of the Brezhnev’s “stagnation”? Why did they emerge and what positions did they hold? Historian Irina Gordeeva writes about the independent peace movement in the late USSR
Moral condemnation of war as senseless mass murder, for which the ruling elites are (…)
, by BUDRAITSKIS Ilya
What should we make of Lenin today? How should he be framed within what Hayden White calls a ‘practical past’ narrative, one that provides an orientation to the past that might usefully illuminate the present? In the century after his death, Lenin fell victim both to a hagiographic approach in (…)
, by VAGNER Volodya
New exhibits at Russia’s military history museum aim to stir patriotic fervour. But will they work?
The view from the half-ruined farmhouse is terrifying. A sobbing girl is being dragged off by a German soldier as Wehrmacht troops advance through her village. The air is filled with the sound (…)
, by Nevoina (No(to)war)
NEVOINA—We have heard all the oohing and aahing about war and intervention today somewhere else.
Namely, in the State Duma and the right-wing press of a hundred years ago. As the Interpreter writes (https://t.me/tolk_tolk/13725), "War was demanded by this public every year. All factions - (…)
, by MEDVEDEV Kirill
What could unite society split by war and inequality? What are the alternatives to major post-soviet historical narratives? Poet and activist Kirill Medvedev reflects on anti-imperial solidarity and a new idea of a civic consciousness
The conversation about “progressive,” non-state (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
There is a lot of nonsense on social media about Gorbachev.
Gorbachev was not the gravedigger of the revolution: the revolution was dead, at least since Stalin took power in 1928.
Revolution is the revolutionary power of the people self-organized in councils - the “soviets”. By the time (…)
, by DALE Gareth
Mikhail Gorbachev is remembered in the West as a liberal man of peace, while in Russia he’s blamed for disastrous national decline. Gareth Dale sets Gorbachev in his historical context and rejects both assessments, beginning on a personal note.
In an immediate, personal sense I am grateful (…)
, by JONES Ryan
Every year, an estimated 13 million people go whale-watching around the world, marveling at the sight of the largest animals ever to inhabit Earth. It’s a dramatic reversal from a century ago, when few people ever saw a living whale. The creatures are still recovering from massive (…)
, par LE BLANC Paul
"Two cutting-edge interpretations from U.S. Marxist scholars – Ronald Suny and Eric Blanc – have recently appeared, providing important insights for scholars and activists alike.”
Stalin : Passage to Revolution, by Ronald Grigor Suny. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020. 857 pages. (…)
, by Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia)
FAS (#natsmen_ok voices)–Prestalinist Soviet nationalities policy A series of brochures entitled “The Working Woman of the East” was published in the second half of the 1920s by the Association of Oriental Studies under the Central Executive Committee, by order of the Workers’ and Peasants’ (…)
, by BAKHMIN Vyacheslav, Posle/После
An interview with human rights activist Vyacheslav Bakhmin about the atmosphere of that critical moment and the relevance of parallels with today’s war
The comparisons of the current war in Ukraine with the entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan forty years ago are currently very popular. (…)
, by OLEYNIKOV Andrey
Political philosopher Andrey Oleynikov tells a brief history of the concept which has become one of the key elements of Putin’s propaganda
Until recently, only a small group of intellectuals found it pleasant to study the vocabulary of Putin’s regime. Indeed, a rare breed of people is (…)
, by MITRALIAS Yorgos
May 9 has come and gone, and as has been the constant for the past two decades, both Mr. Putin’s enemies and friends have repeated in unison that on May 9 of every year, Russia remembers and honors the 20 or 25 plus million of its dead during World War II. It even seems that in recent years, and (…)
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