Regarding our critiques of Bolshevism
In this short but insightful article, Camillo Berneri tries to analyze as fairly as possible the causes for the failure of the Russian revolution, taking account of both “the errors and the horrors” committed by the Bolsheviks and the ‘objective conditions’ that even an anarchist revolution would have been unable to overcome, and concluding that the latter played the greater role.
Miasnikov's 'Draft Platform' for the Communist Workers' International (1930)
Submitted by Internationalis... on Dec 18 2019 13:07
The document which follows is a translation from the French original. It was sent to us in the facsimile version kept in the NKVD files in Moscow by comrades of the Workers’ Group in the USA. The official stamp shows that the NKVD had received it by 8 July 1932 and, no doubt, it later played a part in sealing the ultimate fate of Gavril Miasnikov. Our translation is based on this version.
Informe de la delegación siberiana - Leon Trotsky
Spanish edition of a report from the siberian section of the Russian Social-democrat party, relevant because it's Tortsky's most critical stance thowards Lenin. The book also includes writings by Pierre Guillaume and Jean Barrot (Gilles Dauve)
Soziale Befreiung - Writings on the Russian Revolution (1917-1921)
Submitted by Blesk on Oct 2 2018 14:49
Soziale Befreiung
Für die revolutionäre Selbstaufhebung des Proletariats!
For the revolutionary self-abolition of the proletariat!
Schriften zur russischen Revolution (1917-1921)
Writings on the Russian Revolution (1917-1921)
The Bolsheviks come to power - Alexander Rabinowitch
The Bolsheviks Come to Power is one of the most important histories of the Russian Revolution to challenge the mainstream narratives.
Review – Anarchist Encounters: Russia In Revolution
A must read for anyone who really wants to understand the Russian Revolution, and whose enquiring minds are not deterred by Leninist orthodoxy.
Excerpt on National Bolshevism from Martin A. Lee's _The Beast Reawakens_
An overview of the origins and developments of National Bolshevism. The text is from Martin A. Lee's 1997 book The Beast Reawakens, pages 311-323.
Radek on the International Situation in Spring 1918
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 14 2018 20:29
This is the second in our series of translations from the review Kommunist via the French version published by the Collectif d’édition smolny (www.collectif-smolny.org) as La Revue Kommunist: Les communist de gauche contre le capitalisme d’état (The review Kommunist: Left Communists against state capitalism). Our first translation was of Radek’s article on the situation of the October Revolution in Russian in March 1918 entitled Five Months On. (See leftcom.org). This second one is also by Radek from Kommunist No. 1.
An Epitaph for the October Revolution?
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 14 2018 20:07
2017 will no doubt see a flood of publications to commemorate the centenary of the Russian Revolution. There will be those who insist that the October Revolution provides a model for today and still others who will argue the opposite. Neither opinion is likely to go much beyond the defence of entrenched ideological positions. The fact that the great hopes raised by the October Revolution not only failed to materialise, but ended in a monstrous Stalinist regime which turned private exploitation into state exploitation, has been one of the greatest propaganda weapons for today’s capitalist system whose own crisis grows deeper with every year that passes.
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