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If Russia follows the path that it took after 1861, it will miss the greatest chance to leap over all the fatal alternatives of the capitalist regime that history has ever offered to a people. Like ...

Loren Goldner reviews John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History" in Insurgent Notes #7. This is a very important book, one of the ...

On 1870, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov --better known as Vladimir Lenin-- was born in Simbirsk in the former Russian Empire.

6. The world war that began in 1914 was a result of the explosion of the contradiction of capitalism between the nation-state system and the world economy. This war, waged for the imperialist ...

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Many readers will be familiar with Victor Serge’s literary work: his novels, notably The Case of Comrade Tulayev, and his ...

At the start of the twentieth century, imperial Russia projected size and strength to the outside world. Internally, however, the foundations of Tsar Nicholas II’s rule were already under strain.