The West Siberian uprising, 1921-1922 A short account of the West Siberian uprising against the Bolsheviks.
The German war economy and state socialism - Robert Kurz In this excerpt from his book, The Collapse of Modernization (1991), Robert Kurz discusses the role…
The IWW and the Profintern The exchange between the USSR directed Red International of Labour Unions (a.k.a. the Profintern) and the IWW.
Strikes against Stalin in 1930s Russia - Jeffrey Rossman A detailed account and analysis of the Teikovo cotton workers' strike of April 1932, examining class…
The Cold War as a System - Michael Cox Many leftists saw the Cold War as a genuine clash between Soviet 'Socialism' and Western capitalism. Michael Cox, however, shows how Soviet…
The Makhnovists and the Mennonites: war and peace in the Ukrainian Revolution This is a story about massacres that occurred in Southern Ukraine between 26th October and 7th…
The Soviet Union versus socialism - Noam Chomsky In this article, which was written close to the end of the cold war, Noam Chomsky argues against the association of socialism with Bolshevism.
The Russian revolution in retreat, 1920-24: Soviet workers and the new communist elite - Simon Pirani This critically acclaimed book, published in 2008, focuses on the retreat from the…
Several considerations – democratic centralist Two articles from the Decist dissident faction within the Bolshevik party on the expulsion of Trotsky.
Did the Bolshevik seizure of power inaugurate a socialist revolution? A Marxian inquiry - Paresh Chattopadhyay Chattopadhyay applies Marxian categories to the Russian Revolution of 1917 to…
The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience - Paresh Chattopadhyay Paresth Chattopadhyay's book elaborating on Marx's concept of capital and applying it to the economy…
Western Marxism and the Soviet Union - Marcel van der Linden Marcel van der Linden reviews various Marxian theories on the nature of the Soviet Union.
