Did the Bolshevik seizure of power inaugurate a socialist revolution? A Marxian inquiry - Paresh Chattopadhyay
Chattopadhyay applies Marxian categories to the Russian Revolution of 1917 to examine its socialist content.
In the eyes of the overwhelming majority on the left – certainly in South Asia – the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia in 1917 signalled the victory of socialist revolution or at least started the socialist revolution in that country. Those who accept this position hold it more or less axiomatically.
The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience - Paresh Chattopadhyay
The present work analyzes the Soviet economic experience in the light of the Marxian concept of capital.
Western Marxism and the Soviet Union - Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden reviews various Marxian theories on the nature of the Soviet Union.
The anarchist underground in Leningrad
Submitted by Battlescarred on Oct 14 2010 10:13
A short account of the anarchist underground in Leningrad in the 1920s
Yuri Krinitsky was an 18 year old student when he came from Tashkent to study at the Russian Institute of the History of Art. Back home he had been involved in the setting up of several circles of anarcho-syndicalist youth. He was arrested there in autumn 1922 on the charge of publishing an underground magazine Turkestan Alarm and given a written denunciation.
History of the Makhnovist movement, 1918-1921 - Peter Arshinov
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 27 2010 16:16
The full text of Peter Arshinov's definitive history of the revolutionary Ukrainian guerrilla movement led by anarchist Nestor Makhno.
Translated by Lorraine and Fredy Perlman. Published by Black & Red/Solidarity, Detroit/Chicago 1974. This edition obtained from the Digital Text International website. The Nestor Makhno Archive has altered some spellings and corrected some typographical errors. Further corrections by libcom.org. Text from www.nestormakhno.info
Ante Ciliga,Trotsky, and State Capitalism: Theory, Tactics, and Re-evaluation during the Purge Era, 1935-1939 - Michael S Fox
Michael S. Fox on Trotsky and state capitalism during Stalin's purges. In PDF format.
From Class against Class
A fresh look at Lenin - Andy Brown
Solidarity pamphlet #56, in which Andy Brown examines the failure of the Russian revolution and its relation to the ideology of Lenin, its key leader, as described by his own words. With a Postface by Ian Pirie and A.A. Raskolnikov.
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The Unhappy Elitist: Victor Serge's Early Bolshevism - Peter Sedgwick
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 23 2010 17:11
Peter Sedgwick examines the early, often seemingly contradictory, politics of anarchist-turned Bolshevik Victor Serge.
From History Workshop Journal 17 Spring 1984:
Jan Waclaw Machajski: A radical critic of the Russian intelligensia and socialism - Marshall S. Shatz
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 22 2010 10:53
A biography of Polish-born Jan Waclaw Machajski and account of his radical critique of the role of the intelligentsia in Soviet Russia's political life which was known as Makhaevism.
The final purging of the Makhnovists 1937-1938
Submitted by Battlescarred on Sep 6 2010 12:21
A short account of the repression that fell on old members of the Makhnovist movement in 1937-38.
The years 1937-38 were a terrible period in the Soviet Union. Stalin turned on his perceived enemies within the Communist Party, murdering those organised around the Trotskyist Opposition as well as many other Old Bolsheviks like Bukharin, Kamenev and Zinoviev.
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