Workers Opposition

Democratic centralism, the Workers Opposition, clandestine opposition movements, the crisis in the party, Kronstadt and the end of the revolutionary period in Russia - Michel Olivier

A short essay on the left opposition in the Bolshevik Party in Russia from 1919 to…

Leading Workers' Opposition activist, Alexandra Kollontai

1919-1922: The Workers’ Opposition

A short history of a group within the Russian Communist Party that struggled against the increasing party bureaucracy and for trade union control…

Petrograd Soviet, 1917

Medvedev, Sergei Pavlovich, 1885-1937

Story of the life of Bolshevik metal worker and member of the Workers' Opposition group, Sergei Medvedev, who, like many others who criticised…

Alexandra Kollontai, 1952

Kollontai, Alexandra, 1872-1952

Short biography of the Bolshevik feminist Alexandra Kollontai who played a crucial role in the Workers Opposition movement. The biography does…

Russian revolutionary women in 1905

Women fighters in the days of the great October Revolution - Alexandra Kollontai

In this article, written in 1927 (well after the Bolshevik consolidation of power), Alexandra…

International Women's Day - Alexandra Kollontai

First published in 1920, this essay traces the history of international women's day and its importance to working class struggle with particular…

Alexandra Kollontai at the International Women's Conference, 1921

The Workers' Opposition - Alexandra Kollontai

Kollontai's pamphlet was one of the central theoretical works of the Workers' Opposition movement within the Bolshevik Party, arguing for…

On the History of the Movement of Women Workers in Russia - Alexandra Kollontai

Written in 1919, Alexandra Kollontai's essay looks at the role of working class women in the history of Russian radicalism with particular focus on the 1905 revolution.

Alexander Shliapnikov

Shliapnikov, Alexander, 1885-1937

Biography of working class Bolshevik, Alexander Shliapnikov, active in the Workers' Opposition movement who was eventually purged from the party…

Lenin and Trotsky with troops in Petrograd, 1921

Appeal of the 22 - Alexander Shliapnikov

Appeal by members of the Workers' Opposition group for support against Bolshevik forces trying to silence their dissent within the party…

All Russian Central Council of Trade Unions members

Theses of the Workers Opposition - Alexander Shliapnikov

Original thesis of the Workers' Opposition group within the Bolshevik Party, arguing for greater…

On the relations between the Russian Communist Party, the soviets and production unions - Alexander Shliapnikov

Thesis of Workers' Opposition member, Alexander Shliapnikov, given at the ninth…