Russian Revolution 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

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…

Pravda o Kronshtadte (cover)

The Truth about Kronstadt

A translation of Pravda o Kronshtadte, produced by SRs shortly after the event in 1921.

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The Communist Left in Russia after 1920 - Ian Hebbes

A re-evaluation by the late Ian Hebbes of the continued existence of a Left Communist opposition within the USSR up until the 1930s.

Red Guard

1918: The Proletariat's Democratic Revolution in Finland

The following is an excerpt from 'The Truce and the Great Retrenchment' - Chapter 6 of Year One of…

1921: Kronstadt: Proletarian spin-off of the Russian Revolution - Cajo Brendel

Cajo Brendel's pamphlet on the Kronstadt rebellion

Cajo Brendel

Council communism and the critique of Bolshevism - Cajo Brendel

Cajo Brendel on council communism and Bolshevism.

Trotsky with Stalin

Bolshevism and Stalinism - Paul Mattick

Mattick analyses "the superficiality of the ideological differences between Stalinism and Trotskyism" and why "Trotsky's own past and theories",…

Trotsky

Stalinism’s loyal opposition - The counter-revolutionary politics of Trotsky

This article was originally written to refute lies about the history of 20th century revolutionary…