The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982 - M. Hassan Kakar Afghan historian M. Hassan Kakar's history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the response of…
The untold history of armistice and the end of World War I ‘The best antidote to ideology is detail,’ writes Paul Mason. And the detail that’s missing this…
Down with the Death Penalty - Julius Martov Julius Martov's denunciations of Bolsheviks use of capital punishment in contrast to their earlier campaigns against the death penalty when they…
Ettore Cinnella - The tragedy of the Russian Revolution: promise and default of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries in 1918. The unpublished minutes of the three congresses held by the Left Socialist…
Class and Revolution in Ethiopia Extracts from John Markakis and Naga Ayale's book 'Class and Revolution in Ethiopia', published in 1978, a year after Ayale was killed in one of…
DEMOCRACIA Exposes the ‘Socialism’ of Social-Imperialism An article on the meaning of socialism from Abyot, information bulletin of the Foreign Committee of…
Notes on Early Soviet Attitudes to Homosexuality Fragments of information concerning the attitudes of the Bolshevik government in its early years to homosexuality.
Better Fewer, But Better In Lenin's final document, he laments how much of the Bolshevik state apparatus has been left over from Tsarism.
How We Should Reorganise the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection In one of Lenin's final works, he describes the Bolshevik state apparatus as "to a considerable…
Alexandra Kollontai argues for sending sex workers to forced labour camps for 'labour desertion', 1921 Kollontai discusses prostitution in the USSR, stating that the short-term solution…
Lenin orders the massacre of sex workers, 1918 Lenin's letter to G. F. Fyodorov ordering "mass terror, shoot and deport the hundreds of prostitutes who are making drunkards of the soldiers,…
