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…
The Russian Tragedy - Alex Berkman Alex Berkman anaylses the failure of the Russian Revolution, written 1922.
Interview: Anarchism, the USSR, alternative media and Belarus The Anarchist Federation interviews two members of the Belarusian Anarchist Federation (BAF).
Lenin's Terror within the Bolshevik Party - Maximov Anarchist Gregori Maximov's analysis of Lenin's repression of opposition factions within the Bolshevik Party during 1920-1921.
The strategy and nature of Bolshevism The final chapters of Gabriel and Dany Cohn-Bendit's book Obsolete Communism, the Left-Wing Alternative, which deal with the theory and practise…