- The ABC of Communism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1920
Written as a commentary on the Bolshevik Party program, combining a vision of communist society with a program for practical action.
- Against Capitalism
The European Left on the March
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
- The Age of Permanent Revolution
A Trotsky Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
A collection of writings by Leon Trotsky.
- The Agrarian Question in the Russian Revolution
From Material Community to Productivism, and Back
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
This article was conceived as Part One of a three-part series which would be: 1) the revolutionary epoch 1917–1923, and the ultimately disastrous international influence of the Russian Revolution, illustrated in the cases of the very early French, German, Italian and US Communist Parties; 2) the failed return of the “vanguard party” (Trotskyism, Maoism) in the period from 1968 to 1977 and 3) the ongoing recomposition of the world working class, and forms of worker organization and self-organization, today and tomorrow.
- "All Power to the Soviets!" Biography of a Slogan
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
An examination of the origins of the slogan "All Power to the Soviets" in its original context of Russia in 1917.
- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
The Experience of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
- Anarchism
A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas
Resource Type: Book
- The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
Documents of revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A selection of articles, manifestos, speeches, resolutions, letter, diaries, poems, and songs which seek to capture the spirit of the anarchist movement in Rissia.
- Black Guards
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Armed groups of anarchist workers in the Russian Revolution in 1917-1918.
- Bolshevik Party
Entry in the Marxists Internet Archive Glossary
Resource Type: Article
The Bolshevik party led the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923 - Volume One
A History of Soviet Russia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
The first volume of E.H. Carr's eight-volume history of Soviet Russia,, containing an analysis of those events and controversies in Bolshevik history between 1898 and 1917 which influenced the nature and course of the Revolution itself.
- The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923 - Volume Two
A history of Soviet Russia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
- The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923 - Voume Three
Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Bolshevik Women
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history of the contributions of women to the Soviet Communist Party before 1921 in Russia.
- The Bolsheviks
Index to the biographies and writings of members of the Party that made the October 1917 Revolution in Russia.
Resource Type: Website
- 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 Bolsheviks and Workers' Control
The State and Counter-Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A pamphlet exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic Leninist "history" of the relationship between the working class and their party during these years (1917-21) but it also provides a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed in the way it did. From this understanding flows alternative possibilities of revolutionary organization.
- Nikolai Bukharin Archive - index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Nikolai Bukharin
- The Case for Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
- The Contradiction of Trotsky
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1948
It was worth examining carefully Trotsky's attitude at the dawn of Stalinism, for it enables us to elucidate the (theoretical) policy to which he adhered until his death. I have said that Trotsky represented, between 1923 and 1927, the contradictions of Bolshevism. I should now add that he never emerged from this divided situation. Subsequently he transported into the domain of revolutionary theory the contradiction in which he had become objectively enclosed. Of course, he was forced by events to perceive the counter-revolutionary character of Stalinism, but he was not capable of taking an overall view of the new Stalinist society and of defining it.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- February Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917.
- Five Years’ Struggle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1923
- Flame on the Snow
(1920/1921)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1924
- Foreign Interventions in Revolutionary Russia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
All over Europe, the First World War had brought about a potentially revolutionary situation as early as 1917. In countries where the authorities continued to represent the traditional elite, exactly as had been the case in 1914, they aimed to prevent the realization of this potential by means of repression, concessions, or both.
- From Lenin to Stalin
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A fascinating, first-hand account of the Stalinist takeover in Russia.
- From Lenin to Stalin: Book Review
Resource Type: Unclassified
Published: 1973
A fascinating, first-hand account of the Stalinist takeover in Russia.
- Further Reading on the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Several book recomendations with some comments on each.
- The Great Class War
1914-1918
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
In this critical, revisionist account, historian Jacques Pauwels shows how the First World War was rooted in class strife that begin with the French Revolution in 1789 and continued long past the war itself. As Pauwels sees it, war seemed to offer major benefits to the European upper classes of the early twentieth century, who felt threatened by the seemingly irresistible process of democratization or, as they saw it, the "rise of the masses." War was expected to serve as an antidote to social revolution, causing workers to abandon socialism's focus on overthrowing the established order via internaitonal worker solidarity in favour of nationalism and militarism.
- Heretics and Renegades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc.
- The Hero' of Kronstadt Writes History
Review of The Revolution Betrayed
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1937
It is only necessary to reflect on the paramount role which Trotsky played in the first thundering years of Bolshevik Russia to understand why he cannot admit that the Bolshevik revolution was only able to change the form of capitalism but was not able to do away with the capitalist form of exploitation. It is the shadow of that period that lies in the way of his understanding.
- History and Class Consciousness
Studies in Marxist Dialectics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- 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.
- History of the Makhnovist Movement 1918 - 1921
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- History of the October Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
- In Defence of October
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1932
- In Defense of Marxism
Resource Type: Book
- 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 Kronstadt Commune
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
A history of the Kronstadt Uprising 1921 which highlights one of the most important yet neglected events of the Russian Revolution. The suppression of the most revolutionary section of the Navy by the Bolsheviks was the final blow to any hope of a genuine revolution based on democratic workers' control. Mett dispels many of the contemporary mistruths put forward by Bolshevik propagandists and includes a number of original sources from the commune.
- Kronstadt rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An uprising of Soviet sailors, soldiers and civilians against the Bolshevik government in 1921.
- Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A series of rebellions and uprisings against the Bolsheviks led or supported by left wing groups.
- Lenin
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
- Lenin 1917-18: the road to the authoritarian state.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Lenin’s focus when he returned to Russia in 1917 was on the facts of the revolution, rather than outdated Bolshevik theory. He began with what was real, rather than an abstract possibility.
- Lenin in 1917
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1925
- Lenin, Trotsky and the Vanguard Party
A Contemporary View
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1964
- Lenin, Vladimir - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
- Lenin's April Theses and the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In 1917 Lenin arrived from exile iin Petrograd, soon to give an outline of what were to be called the April Theses. Broadly, the theses can be summarised as follows: Only the overthrow of the provisional government and the fight for soviet power could secure a state of affairs that would bring bread to the workers, land to the peasants and peace to end the imperialist war.
- Leon Trotsky Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Trotsky's speeches.
- The Lessons of October
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1924
- The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Blending a passionate sensibility and a steely intellect with an unshakeable commitment to revolutionary socialism, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. In this comprehensive collection selection of Luxemburg's letters, her political concerns are revealed alongside the story of a vivid inner life.
- Listen, Marxist!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Murray Bookchin takes on the 'Marxist-Leninists' who are destroying the New Left.
- Luxemburg, Rosa - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919).
- Makhno, Nestor
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Ukrainian anarcho-communist guerrilla leader. (1888-1934).
- Marxism and Freedom
From 1776 to Today
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society.
- Marxism and the Russian Anarchists
Resource Type: Book
Studies of the ideas of Russian anarchists, including anarcho-syndicalists, anarchist-communists, Makheavists, council anarchists, Makhnovism, and soviet anarchists.
- Marxism, class and revolution in Africa: the legacy of the 1917 Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
This article assesses the influence of 1917 on African liberation movements and explains how it influenced struggles against and beyond colonialism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 70: 1917: the February Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
As WWI turned into a protracted, bloody struggle the initial enthusiasm gave way to growing class tensions which exploded first in Russia's February Revolution.
- A Marxist History of the World part 71: Dual power: the mechanics of revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The centuries old Russian monarchy was overthrown in a matter of days in February 1917. Neil Faulkner looks at the months of turmoil that followed.
- A Marxist History of the World part 72: February to October the rhythms of revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The situation of 'dual power' that emerged after the overthrow of the Tsar in February 1917 was marked by a series of major political crises.
- A Marxist History of the World part 73: 1917: the October Insurrection
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- A Marxist History of the World part 80: Stalinism: the bitter fruit of revolutionary defeat
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at the time when the Bolshevik regime turned in on itself and morphed into a mockery of its socialist ideals.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1906
Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
- Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
Victor Serge, who was bron in 1890 and died in 1947, was an anarchist, a Bolshevik, a Trotskyist, and a revisionist-Marxist. Belgian by birth and upbringing, French by adoption and in literary expression, Russian by parentage and later by citizenship, he eventually became stateless and was put down as a Spanish national for purposes of his funeral documents. He was a journalist, a poet, a pamphleteer, a historian, a political prisoner, an agitator, and a novelist.
- The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History
Resource Type: Book
- My Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Trotsky's autobiography, published in 1930.
- The National Question
Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- 1917 and the Colonial Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Solenberger discuss the 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent spead of the communist movement internationally. He focuses on the conditions which led to the rapid spread of its ideas and how in 1920 the movement went from being on the offense to defence.
- Obsolete Communism
The Left-Wing Alternative
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
- October Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The October Revolution, also known as the Soviet Revolution or Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution.
- The October Revolution: Its Necessity & Meaning
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Mandal examines the necessity and meaning of the October Revolution.
- 'October Song' - A challenging portrayal of the Russian Revolution
Review of Paul Le Blanc, October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917-1924
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A review 'October Song,' Paul Le Blanc's book about the Russian revolution. Detailed with excerpts and criticism.
- On Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Arendt examines the American, French, and Russian revolutions and draws conclusions about the meaning of revolution.
- Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1926
In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the Delo Truda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet.
- Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1904
Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to the debate within the Russian Social Democratic movement on party organization and democratic centralism. Luxemburg joins Trotsky in warning of the dangers inherent in centralism and argues against the concentration of power in a Central Committee. From a Socialist Revolutionary perspective Luxemburg puts forward compelling arguments against Lenin's conception of the revolutionary party.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
Race and Class
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
Resisting Injustice
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
Official Enemies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
- Our Generation
Volume 20 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
- Prelude to Revolution
The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
About the role of the Bolsheviks in the period between the February and October 1917 revolutions, concentrating on their role in the July uprising in Petrograd.
- Red Emma Speaks
Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
- Reds (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 1981
A 1981 film that was co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty. The picture centres on the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days That Shook the World.
- Reed, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American journalist and communist activist. (1887-1920).
- Reed, John - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of John Reed (1887-1920).
- The Revolution in Russia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1905
- The Revolution Party
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The accumulating failures of both Communist and Social Democratic parties over the past 50 years was accompanied by a marked shift on the radical left toward a broad-ranging ‘movementism’ – whether in its pressure-group or protest-oriented dimensions. As Jodi Dean has recently argued, those trying thereby to escape 'the constraints of party’ often reduced it to 'the actuality of its mistakes’ while ‘its role as concentrator of collective aspirations and affects [was] diminished if not forgotten.'
- Revolution.international
Resource Type: Website
Web resources on revolutionary politics and revolution.
- Revolutionary reels: Soviet propaganda film and the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
However, the Bolsheviks would revolutionize Russian cinema as leaders recognized the potential of film propaganda as a way to influence the political and social attitudes of the people. Vladimir Lenin clearly understood the power of film, as he stated, "Of all the arts, for us, cinema is most important."
- Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1962
People have not finished talking about the Russian Revolution, its problems, its degeneration, and about the regime it ultimately produced. And how could one? Of all the revolts of the working class, the Russian Revolution was the only victorious one. And of all the working class's failures, it was the most thoroughgoing and the most revealing.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
- Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
- Rosmer, Alfred - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Alfred Rosmer (1883-1969).
- Russia – How the Revolution was Lost
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1967
- Russia in Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- Russia in Revolution 1900-1930
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
A portrait of thirty years of political and artistic upheaval.
- The Russian Enigma: Lenin, Also...
Chapter 9 of Book 3 of The Russian Enigma, cut by the publisher of the original 1938 version
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
Chapter 9 of Book 3 of Ante Ciliga's The Russian Enigma originally published as In The Land of The Great Lie. The book details Ciliga's time spent in Soviet Prisons and 'isolaters' following his arrest for belonging to the Trotskyist Opposition, and provides a wealth of important documentary information concerning the miserable conditions in which the working class were reduced to living in, the extent of the 'criminalisation' of large swathes of the population, and the various forms in which resistance appeared.
- The Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him.
- Russian Revolution of 1905
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A wave of mass political unrest through vast areas of the Russian Empire.
- Russian Revolution of October 1917
Resource Type: Website
Eye-Witness reports and analyses of the Revolution by its participants and links to historical documents.
- The Russian Revolution Revisited - Review
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2102
A review of 'The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History' by John Eric Marot.
- The Russian tragedy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
There is only one solution to the tragedy in which Russia in caught up: an uprising at the rear of German imperialism, the German mass rising, which can signal the international revolution to put an end to this genocide.
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
- Serge, Viktor - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Victor Serge (1890-1947).
- Sex and the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The philosophy of the October Revolution contained radical ideas around sexual politics which have been forgotten today. Drawing parallels to today's issues on gender and sexuality could help a new generation get into radical labour politics.
- Situationist International Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A selection of Situationist writings.
- Six Red Months in Russia
An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1918
Louise Bryant's account of her time in Russia during the revolution 1917-1918.
- The Socialist Register 1984
Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- The Soviets and Tsarist Debt
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A history of the Soviet's refusal to honor Tsarist debt afterthe 1971 revolution. Looks at the effect on Russia up to and after the end of the USSR.
- Stalin – An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1941
Trotsky's unfinished biography of Stalin.
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
- Svyazhsk
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1943
Larissa Reissner's vivid description of the 1918 battle for Svyazhsk during the Russian Civil War.
- A Sympathetic Critical Study
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Detailed review of a controversial history of Soviet democracy. Lengthy quotes of the book and arguments from its original publication are included.
- The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution
a.k.a. The April Theses
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1917
This article contains Lenin’s famous April Theses read by him at two meetings of the All-Russia Conference of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, on April 4, 1917.
- Ten Days That Shook The World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1960
John Reed's gripping account of the Russian Revolution of November 1917.
- To The Finland Station
A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1953
The revolutionary tradition in Europe and the rise of socialism.
- Toward a socialist future: Children's picture books after the Bolshevik Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was the defining event of the 20th century. Its influence extended across virtually every aspect of human society the world over. The scope for study of the revolution and of the social order that emerged from it is immense, though generally overlooked in contemporary art curation. It comes as a welcome exception to see the attempt by London's House of Illustration art gallery in its exhibition, A New Childhood: Picture Books from Soviet Russia, to bring to light the artistic impetus lent by the revolution to children's book illustrations in early Soviet society.
- Trotsky
A Documentary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
An illustrated biography of Leon Trotsky.
- Trotsky Reconsidered: Claude Lefort's Perspective
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In spite of all the ink spilled that says the opposite, Trotsky may have been closer to Stalin than he was to Lenin. That’s the argument made by Claude Lefort (one of the leading members of Socialisme ou Barbarisme) in a 1948 essay, “The Contradiction of Trotsky.” He criticizes Trotsky for having over and over again pursued a conciliationist approach towards Stalin and failing to uphold what Lefort claims would have been Lenin’s positions if he had still been alive.
- Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
Volume One
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
A combination of dramatic narrative and searching analysis by one of the key figures in the Russian Revolution. Volume 1 cover the period up to the “July Days” – a semi-insurrection followed by attempted stamping out of Bolshevism in Petrograd.
- Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
Volume Two
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
Volume Three
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- The Unfinished Revolution Russia 1917-1967
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
On the signficance of the Russian Revolution.
- The Unknown Dimension
European Marxism Since Lenin
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
- What is to be Done?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1902
- When Canada Invaded Russia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The corporate media presents Russia as militaristic but ignores Canada’s invasion of that country.
- The Women of 1917
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Women weren't just the Russian Revolution’s spark, but the motor that drove it forward.
- Workers Opposition
Solidarity London Pamphlet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Published in Soviet Russia in January 1921 and banned in March 1921.
- Workers' Opposition
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A group within the Russian Communist Party that struggled to achieve workers rights and trade union control over industry.
- Workers' Opposition
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedaa of Marxism Glossary of Terms
Resource Type: Article
A group within the Russian Communist Party that struggled to achieve workers rights and trade union control over industry.
- Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
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