1920s
The Hunt for Red October: Ten Days That Didn't Overthrow Capitalism - Wildcat
Wildcat (UK) attempt to debunk theories both for and against the October Revolution in Russia against the events of 1917-1921, including the council communist, Trotskyist and 'left communist' positions on the revolution.
The Hunt for Red October - Ten Days That Didn't Overthrow Capitalism
By Wildcat (UK)
Lenin's Terror within the Bolshevik Party - Maximov
Anarchist Gregori Maximov's analysis of Lenin's repression of opposition factions within the Bolshevik Party during 1920-1921.
Taking as point of departure the Marxian theory of centralization, of the "dictatorship of the proletariat," of the state and its role in the period of transition from Capitalism to Communism, during which the state is supposed to be not a free institution but the organ of repression and annihilation of the enemies and adversaries of the Proletariat, Lenin inescapably and logically arrived at the
The strategy and nature of Bolshevism
The final chapters of Gabriel and Dany Cohn-Bendit's book Obsolete Communism, the Left-Wing Alternative, which deal with the theory and practise of Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolshevik Party during the Russian Revolution
Mutinies - Dave Lamb
Solidarity's excellent pamphlet on mutinies in the British armed forces towards the end of World War I.
MUTINIES
Miscellaneous articles by Lucy Parsons
Several short news and comment articles written by Lucy E. Parsons in the US radical, anarchist and workers' press.
1926: The Social General Strike - why 1926 failed, by Tom Brown
Written in the early 1940s, British syndicalist Tom Brown's article The Social General Strike - Why 1926 Failed examines the failure of the 1926 General Strike. It makes suggestions for future action, and argues for worker's control.
This text also contains an introduction, footnotes and postscript by a US-based group "More to Come" which they used in a pamphlet "Why strikes fail????". We have placed them at the end of Brown's article, which we feel historically is more important.
The Bolsheviks, the Civil War, and Red Fascism
Internationalist Perspective trace Stalinism back to the October Revolution and Lenin, via an article by Nicholas Werth.
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THE BOLSHEVIKS, THE CIVIL WAR, AND "RED FASCISM"
Kronstadt 1921: An analysis of Bolshevik propaganda - Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman analyzes the Bolshevik propaganda over Kronstadt, including the claim it was a "White Plot" led by the Tsarist general Kozlovsky (pictured)
Kronstadt 1921: An Analysis of Bolshevik Propaganda
Anarchists, Bolsheviks and Serge - Daniel Guerin
Anarchists, Bolsheviks, and Serge
From Daniel Guerin's _Anarchism_ (Monthly Review Press) (reprinted with permission):
Worker Activism and Social Polarisation in Petrograd and Moscow March to October 1917 - Rosenberg/Koenker
The Limits of Formal Protest: Worker Activism and Social Polarisation in Petrograd and Moscow March to October 1917
William G Rosenberg and Diane P Koenker
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