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",…
Re-visiting the east ... and popping in at Marx's - Gilles Dauvé Apart from North Korea and Cuba, no country calls itself socialist any more. So why bother about old…
1921-1953: A chronology of Russian anarchism A brief timeline of the anarchist movement and anarchist activity in the USSR, and its repression by Soviet authorities following the Russian Revolution.
1944-1945: Anarchists in the Hungarian Resistance The anarchists in WWII Hungary who fought in the Resistance to the Nazis and later the Russian occupiers until their suppression by the…
1900-1923: Anarchism in Siberia A history of anarchism in Siberia, until its demise in the Bolshevik counter-revolution. It had many similarities with the Makhnovist movement.
1419-today: Czech anarchism A brief but detailed history of anarchist ideas and the anarchist movement in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bohemia.
The cultural Cold War: corporate and state intervention in the arts A look at involvement of governments and corporations attempting to push their interests in the…
1966: The Blake prison escape A short history of the miraculous prison break of Soviet double-agent George Blake from a British jail, organised by two libertarian activists.
The Cold War, 1940-1989 - Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky explains the nature of the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union before its collapse in 1989.
The East German uprising, 1953 A brief history of a rebellion against the Soviet government in the GDR.
1956: The Hungarian Revolution The history of the Hungarian workers' revolution against the Communist dictatorship. A general strike was declared, and workers' councils sprung…
Worlds apart: socialism in Marx and in early Bolshevism Paresh Chattopadhyay's article on Marx and the divergence of the Bolsheviks from his conception of…
