Two Articles from Kommunist (April 1918) With the publication of these two articles we are completing our translation of the first issue of Kommunist, the journal of the “proletarian…
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.
Revolutionary Bureaucracy – Solidarity An article from Solidarity for Workers’ Power vol. 7, no. 11 on the nature of the bureaucratisation seen in the Russian Revolution.
Down with the Death Penalty - Julius Martov Julius Martov's denunciations of Bolsheviks use of capital punishment in contrast to their earlier campaigns against the death penalty when they…
Ettore Cinnella - The tragedy of the Russian Revolution: promise and default of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries in 1918. The unpublished minutes of the three congresses held by the Left Socialist…
Notes on Early Soviet Attitudes to Homosexuality Fragments of information concerning the attitudes of the Bolshevik government in its early years to homosexuality.
Theses on Bolshevism - Rudolf Sprenger Rudolf Sprenger's 1934 critique of the Bolsheviks and their role in the 1917 Russian Revolution, arguing they were ultimately a movement of…
The Russian Revolution 100 Years On: Newcastle Meeting of the CWO This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Communist Workers' Organisation has…
Bolshevik repression against anarchists in Vologda A short account of the Bolshevik repression against the anarchist movement in Vologda in the years immediately after the Russian Revolution of…
On leaving Russia Russian Jewish anarchist Mollie Steimer, who was deported to Russia, on her being deported from Russia by the Bolsheviks for condemning their persecution of revolutionary workers.
Bolshevism: Promises and Reality – Gregori Maximov A short pamphlet entitled 'Bolshevism Promises and Reality' (An appraisal of the results of the Marxist dictatorship over Russia) written by…