The latest deception - Gabriel Miasnikov In this essay first published in 1930 in France, the founder of the Workers Group denounces the bureaucracy that he claims seized power in a …
Stalin didn't fall from the moon - Workers Solidarity Movement A collection of articles by the Irish Workers Solidarity Movement tracing the growth of Stalin's…
Conquered city - Victor Serge Victor Serge's novel about the early days of the Bolshevik regime, written in 1932 in France after being expelled from the Soviet Union and part…
Democratic centralism, the Workers Opposition, clandestine opposition movements, the crisis in the party, Kronstadt and the end of the revolutionary period in Russia - Michel Olivier A short essay on the left opposition in the Bolshevik Party in Russia from 1919 to…
State capitalism in Russia - Murray Bookchin Murray Bookchin's critique of the USSR's economy as state capitalist. Published in Contemporary Issues 7, Autumn 1950 (under pseudonym M. S…
Gay in the gulag Historical information about the repression of gay men in the Soviet Union in the wake of the government's re-criminalisation of homosexuality in 1933, after its decriminalisation in 1922…
An unsolved mystery: the "diary of Makhno's wife" - V.N. Litvinov V.N. Litvinov analyses and disputes the alleged diary of Makhno's wife and its allegations about the…
My visit to the Kremlin - Nestor Makhno The Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno visited Moscow in June, 1918 and had extensive interviews with the Bolshevik leaders Sverdlov and Lenin. This…
Fighting back in Ukraine - Oleg Dubrovskii with Simon Pirani This short pamphlet was put together by Simon Pirani in 1996/7 from a series of interviews with…
The guillotine at work - Gregori Maximov Originally published in 1940 in two parts, this is the (partly eyewitness) account of the Leninist terror inflicted upon Russia during the…
Lessons of the counterrevolutions - Amadeo Bordiga A 1953 text in which Amadeo Bordiga examines the lessons of counterrevolutions from the defeat of Spartacus to the Battle of Legnano in 1176 and…
