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Russian History AlterLinks Topic Index The Accumulation of Capital Resource Type: Book Published: 1913 Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation. The Age of Permanent Revolution A Trotsky Anthology Resource Type: Book Published: 1964 A collection of writings by Leon Trotsky. Black Hundreds Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Resource Type: Article An ultra-nationalist bloc in Russia in the early 20th century noted for their direct action methods, including pogroms and terrorist attacks against liberals and leftists. Black Repartition Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article Black Repartition (Chyornyi peredel; also known as Black Partition), Party of Socialists-Federalists, a revolutionary populist organization in Russia in the early 1880s. The Bolsheviks Come to Power The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 An account of how the Bolshevik revolution triumphed. Building Working-Cass Opposition to Stalin's Dictatorship? The Trotskyist Opposition, 1927-1940 Resource Type: Article Published: 1996 A review of Tony Cliff's book Trotsky, 1927-1940. In Cliff's view, the Trotskyist movement in the USSR was not so much destroyed by Stalin as much as it collapsed under the weight of its own fundamentally faulty assumptions regarding the nature of the enemy--indeed, just who the enemy was. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I Economic Writings 1 Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations. Connexions Digest Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992 Connexions Library: Russia Focus Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Russia. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought Resource Type: Book Published: 1983 Five Years’ Struggle Resource Type: Article Published: 1923 The fruits of protest Russia has shelved plans to break up the historic Pavlovsk seed bank Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 The Pavlovsk open air seedbank in St. Petersburg maintains 12,000 species of fruit trees, berries, and flowers. Plans to auction off the land have been placed on hold after protests. Heretics and Renegades Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc. In Russian and French Prisons Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails. 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. Karl Marx and the Iroquois An essay on Marx's Ethnological Notebooks Resource Type: Article Franklin Rosemont delves into Marx's Ethnological Notebooks and examines their significance and relevance towards today's communist movement. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes Resource Type: Book Published: 1978 Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society. Lenin and the Tsarist Duma A review of August H Nimtz, Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Donnelly reviews Nimtz's two volume account of Lenin's pre-revolution electoral strategy and summarises the thesis that Lenin's critique of reformism in parliamentary democracy was rooted in the conclusions of Marx and Engels. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 27 Engels 1890 - 1895 Resource Type: Book Published: 1895 Includes The Foreign Policy of Russian Tsardom, and A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891, and On the History of Early Christianity, and The Peasant Question in France and Germany Marx at the Margins On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies Resource Type: Book Published: 2016 Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism. A Marxist History of the World part 65: The 1905 Revolution: Russia's great dress rehearsal Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Neil Faulkner looks at how the Russian Revolution of 1905 helped Leon Trotsky formulate an answer to the century-old riddle of Russian history: what form must the revolution take in order to be victorious. A Marxist History of the World part 68: 1914: descent into barbarism Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 In the summer of 1914 capitalism tipped humanity into an abyss of barbarism that would leave millions dead. Neil Faulkner looks at the First World War. 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. A Marxist History of the World part 84: State Capitalism in Russia Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 By the end of the 1920s, Stalin's party-state apparatus had become the dominant force in Russian society. A bureaucratic ruling class was formed, and all forms of dissent and resistance were treated as crimes against the state 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." 1905 Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 For a number of years, when the reaction was triumphant, the year 1905 appeared to us as a completed whole, as the Russian revolution. 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. Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 The Peasants of Central Russia Resource Type: Book Published: 1967 An ethnographic description of central aspects of Russian peasant life based upon secondary sources in Russian written by Soviet ethnographers. The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815) Resource Type: Book The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present Resource Type: Book Published: 1978 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. Report of the Siberian Delegation Resource Type: Article Published: 1903 Rooms with a View of Russian Artistic History Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Discussing the challenges for the small historic museums seeking to establish themselves in St. Petersburg. 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. Seeds of Fire A People's Chronology Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence. A Short History of Russia Resource Type: Book Published: 1956 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. Socialist Register 1994 Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1994 Svyazhsk Resource Type: Article Published: 1943 Larissa Reissner's vivid description of the 1918 battle for Svyazhsk during the Russian Civil War. Western Narrative of Crimea a Pack of Lies Born of Failed Policy and Historical Ignorance Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The Western line on Crimea is so absurd that it actually requires mass historical ignorance to be believed. What everyone should know about repression Resource Type: Article Published: 1926

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