Bolsheviks

Trotsky, the Left Opposition and the Rise of Stalinism: Theory and Practice - John Eric Marot

Ret Marut — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:09:03 +0000

1919-1922: The Workers’ Opposition

Ed — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:49:14 +0000

The Workers Opposition began to form in 1919, as a result of the policies of War Communism, which set a precedence for the domination of the Communist Party over local party branches and trade unions. During the civil war, the Workers Opposition began agitating against the lack of democracy in the Communist Party as a result of the centralising actions of the party’s bureaucracy.

Counter-revolution and the Soviet Union - Gregori Maximov

Ed — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:51:13 +0000

Taken from the Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library, No. 14 (March 1998), can also be found on the KSL website here.

Medvedev, Sergei Pavlovich, 1885-1937

Ed — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:27:24 +0000

Sergei Pavlovich Medvedev was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, metalworker, and trade union organizer. Born into a peasant estate, he grew up in the countryside near Moscow and in St. Petersburg. After receiving a primary school education, he began factory work at age thirteen. He first worked at the Obukhov factory in St. Petersburg and participated in the 1901 Obukhov strike.

Kollontai, Alexandra, 1872-1952

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:47:17 +0000

Alexandra Kollontai was a major figure in the Russian socialist movement from the turn of the century through the revolution and civil war. During periods of exile she was also active as a speaker and writer in Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, Scandinavia and the United States.

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

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:26:32 +0000

The women who took part in the Great October Revolution – who were they? Isolated individuals? No, there were hosts of them; tens, hundreds of thousands of nameless heroines who, marching side by side with the workers and peasants behind the Red Flag and the slogan of the Soviets, passed over the ruins of tsarist theocracy into a new future...

International Women's Day - Alexandra Kollontai

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:13:48 +0000

A militant celebration
Women's Day or Working Women's Day is a day of international solidarity, and a day for reviewing the strength and organization of proletarian women.

The Workers' Opposition - Alexandra Kollontai

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:48:26 +0000

First published in Pravda, January 25, 1921 this text was banned in Soviet Russia in March of 1921, by resolution of the 10th Congress of the Communist Party. It was then printed in the Workers ' Dreadnought (by Sylvia Pankhurst), April 22 - August 19, 1921.

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

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:31:33 +0000

What year could be said to mark the beginning of the working women's movement in Russia?

Shliapnikov, Alexander, 1885-1937

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:07:06 +0000

Alexander Shliapnikov was born in 1885 in Murom, Russia, into a Russian family belonging to the urban estate (meshchanstvo) and professing the Old Belief (a religious sect that split from the Russian Orthodox Church in the seventeenth century). His father died when he was three, leaving his mother to support four children by taking in washing.