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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 - (...)
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 patriotism, (...)
More than half of all those detained at anti-mobilisation rallies in September were women, according to OVD-Info data. In recent years, the proportion of women detained at protests has steadily increased: at rallies in support of Alexei Navalny in 2021 they were 25-30%, and at anti-war rallies (...)
"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. (...)
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’ (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Are you still an admirer of the October Revolution in Russia that paved the way for a setting up of the United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)? Asked a friend who does no longer believe in a ‘socialist possibility’. Why did I answer to his question in affirmative?
Almost all the gains of the (...)
One must go beyond Kronstadt to understand Kronstadt. One must grasp, first of all, the struggle for human liberation and the hope of Communism.i
From revolutionary Russia in October 1917, John Reed, sent a cable back to his socialist comrades in the United States: “The rank and file of the (...)
The Russian Revolution enthused anti-colonial movements around the world, fueling hopes that the European empires could be overthrown. But the revolt against empire was also fundamental to Lenin’s own strategy, as he worked to unite workers’ revolts in the metropoles with national struggles to (...)
When Alexandra Kollontai, one of the founders of the Zhenotdel, the women’s department of the Bolshevik Party, wanted to turn her colleagues’ attention toward questions of sexual freedom and what love might look like under socialism, she was met more than once with an eye roll. After the (...)
In February 1918, the repudiation of the debt by the Soviet government shocked international finance and sparked off unanimous condemnation by the governments of the great powers.
This decision of repudiation was intrinsic to this first big movement for social emancipation which rattled the (...)
When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they announced the overthrow of a world scarred by exploitation and domination. In the very moment of revolution, these sentiments were put to the test as antisemitic pogroms swept across the former Pale of Jewish Settlement. The pogroms reached a (...)
The 1954 classic study of the Ukrainian Revolution, Borotbism by Ivan Maistrenko has just been republished in a new edition. It was one of the first significant accounts of the revolution in English.
The Borotbists were the left faction of the Ukrainian Party of Socialists Revolutionaries, (...)
Today is the 140th birthday of Ioseb Jughashvili, also known as Koba, but best known as Joseph Stalin: figurehead of the Soviet bureaucracy that seized control of Russia following the degeneration of the Bolshevik regime. We publish here a review (first released on John Riddell’s blog) of the (...)
The histories of the revolutionary anti-colonial movements in South Asia and their engagement with the October Revolution are reflected upon, in this article. Accompanying these reflections is a sensitivity to contemporary problems of Islamophobia, the manipulation of popular protests by (...)
THE BIG QUESTION surrounding the centenary of the October Revolution: Is this event a hundred years ago still relevant for the left today?
For decades now, there’s been a steady drumbeat of mainstream historians and ideologues telling us that the legacy of October has been, and deserves to be, (...)
Regardless of one’s opinion on The Russian Revolution and the subsequent development of Russian society, the self-organized workers’ councils – the soviets – remain an important breakthrough. For the most part, the discussion of the centenary of the revolution has conveniently steered clear of this (...)
On the occasion of the centenary of the Russian revolution, researchers are talking about the possible influence of the Tatar Mirsaid Sultan Galiev in Asia. With regard to South and Southeast Asia, it seems to be nil, perhaps because we are dealing with too different cultural worlds and too (...)
A hundred years later, the question of the historical legacy of the October Revolution is not an easy one for socialists, given that Stalinism took root within less than a decade after that revolution and the restoration of capitalism seventy years later met little popular resistance. One can, (...)
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