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- The American Revolution: Was There "A People"?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
Book review of 11 books about the American Revolution.
- The Bolsheviks Come to Power
The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
An account of how the Bolshevik revolution triumphed.
- The Bolsheviks in Power
The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
- The Civil War in France
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1871
Written by Karl Marx as an address to the General Council of the International, with the aim of distributing to workers of all countries a clear understanding of the character and world-wide significance of the heroic struggle of the Paris Communards of 1871 and their historical experience to learn from.
- Class, Party and the Challenge of State Transformation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
An essay examining the challenges of changing the state and status quo following major crises of capitalism, and how the current neoliberal status quo has persisted through the various crises it has presented.
- Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
- Counter Power
Making Change Happen
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves." This book sets out to demystify the power dynamics of social change.
- Fire in the Minds of Men
Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- Germany 1921: The March Action
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1964
The debacle represented by the ‘March Action’ in Germany in 1921 was a crucial turning point in the development of the Communist International. The defeat led to a crisis in the German Communist Party (KPD), which had repercussions for the entire International.
- Global Labor: Socialist Register 2001
Book review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
For all intents and purposes, I discovered the Socialist Register during the early '90s. When I say "discovered" I, of course, do not mean that I was the first to come across it. Rather, having heard of it for years, I actually read it.
- The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
- Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
- Hungary 56
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
The Hungarian Revolution was far more than a national uprising or than an attempt to change one set of rulers for another. It was a social revolution in the fullest sense of the term.
- In Defence of the Terror
Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A discussion about the causes and consequences of revolutionary violence, with the premise that dismissive disgust at bloodshed is an overly simplistic response.
- Interactive map of workers' councils (1917-1927)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
This article charts the spread of the workers' council movement in the ten-year period after the 1917 revolution in Russia.
- The Mackenzie Institute
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Mainspring of the Arab Revolt
A review of Lineages of Revolt by Adam Hanieh
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
This book ought to be read — or better, studied — by every socialist interested in the Middle East.
- Marx & Engels papers completely available online
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The original papers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, World Classics, are digitized and now online accessible. The papers can be consulted from anywhere and by anyone who logs into the catalogue website of the International Institute of Social History. Access is open and free.
- Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
Toward a Permanent Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Brown argues, must encompass the subjective, psychological dimensions of the revolutionary process.
- Marxism.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- On Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Arendt examines the American, French, and Russian revolutions and draws conclusions about the meaning of revolution.
- Our Generation
Volume 11 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
- Philosophy and Revolution
From Hegel to Sartre, and from Marx to mao
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Dunayevskaya argues in favour of a re-evaluation of the theoretical philosophy of Hegel and its application by Marx and the later Lenin to the history of mankind.
- The Politics of Urban Liberation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
A broad-ranging study which covers the political economy of the urban question and the importance of the city in the history of social revolution. Schechter's evaluation of libertarian insurgency highlights the importance of movements from below dealing with housing, transportation and other issues of daily life.
- Re-examine revolution, but don't abandon it
Book review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Re-examine revolution, but surely now is not the time to abandon it. Chris Nineham reviews Socialist Register 2017: Rethinking Revolution
- Reflections on the Revolution in France: 1968
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
In May 1968 France was on the threshold of something entirely new. In this 'pre-revolutionary situation' nothing went unquestioned. The writers, trade unionists and students who contribute to this volume all believe our future is foreshadowed in the events of May. And they explain why, after this shock to a regime of seemingly impregnable strength, things can never be the same again.
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1896
- Revolution.international
Resource Type: Website
Web resources on revolutionary politics and revolution.
- Revolutionary Self-Theory: A Beginners' Manual
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
A booklet is for people who are dissatisfied with their lives.
- List of revolutions and rebellions
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
This is a list of revolutions and rebellions
- Russia in Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- The Spanish Revolution, Past and Future: Grandeur and Poverty of Anarchism
How the Working Class Takes Over (or Doesn't), Then and Now
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Looking at the Spanish Revolution, arguably the richest and deepest social revolution of the twentieth century.
- Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
John Rees draws on the experience of recent mass movements and past revolutions to suggest ways in which the left can maximize the effectiveness of all those who want to transform society.
- What Difference Could a Revolution Make?
Food and Farming in The New Nicarauga
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Reports on the dramatic changes brought by the first three years of the Sandinista revolution.
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