1860s

Secret Societies and the First International - Boris I. Nicolaevsky

Ret Marut — Sun, 06 May 2007 22:47:21 +0000

"B. I. Nicolaevsky was Curator of the Menshevik collection at the Hoover Institution. An active member of the Russian Social Democratic Party, he became Director of the Moscow Marx-Engels Institute after the revolution of 1917. Deported from Russia in 1922, he later became Director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam."

Originally published in "The Revolutionary Internationals, 1864-1943"; ed. Milorad M. Drachovitch, Stanford University Press, 1966.

1860: The Lynn shoe strike

Steven. — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:02:52 +0000

10. The Other Civil War

Steven. — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:07:55 +0000

A sheriff in the Hudson River Valley near Albany, New York, about to go into the hills in the fall of 1839 to collect back rents from tenants on the enormous Rensselaer estate, was handed a letter:

... the tenants have organized themselves into a body, and resolved not to pay any more rent until