A Critique of Philosophical Prejudices against Communal Ownership - Nikolai Chernyshevsky Extracts from Chernyshevsky's 1858 article criticizing the contemporary views on…
The People and the State - The People's Will An abridged editorial article that appeared in the second issue (No. 2) of the People's Will newspaper Narodnaya Volya, dated 15 November 1879…
Program of the Executive Committee of the People's Will One of the versions of a program published by the Executive Committee of the Social Revolutionary…
The Town Preacher (Der shtot-magid) - Shmuel Gozhansky A popular Bundist pamphlet written by Shmuel Gozhansky and published in 1897 by the General Jewish…
The State of Israel - International Jewish Labor Bund The response of the International Jewish Labor Bund to the establishment of the State of Israel on…
What is to be done? - Nikolai Chernyshevsky Novel by Russian socialist/revolutionary Nikolai Chernyshevsky, written while being detained at the Peter-Paul Fortress by Tsarist authorities…
Roots of revolution: a history of the populist and socialist movements in nineteenth century russia - Franco Venturi An extensive work on Russian narodism/socialism spanning from the Revolutions of…
On social relations in Russia - Friedrich Engels Pamphlet by Engels responding to an "open letter" by the Russian revolutionary Pyotr Tkachev, in which Tkachev had criticized Engels'…
Late Marx and the Russian Road - Teodor Shanin Text by Shanin on Marx's (and Engels') Russian writings, including a number of primary sources relating to the Narodnik movement in Russia.
Bakunin and Nechaev - Paul Avrich Short work by Paul Avrich discussing the relationship between Mikhail Bakunin and the Russian revolutionary Sergey Nechaev, who played a role in…
Peasant patterns of resistance - Peter Kolchin Extracts from a chapter of historian Peter Kolchin’s book Unfree Labor, describing a few instances of a type of serf-resistance in Imperial…
Notes on Early Soviet Attitudes to Homosexuality Fragments of information concerning the attitudes of the Bolshevik government in its early years to homosexuality.