October 1917 – Workers in Power. Authors: Paul Le Blanc, Ernest Mandel, David Mandel, François Vercammen, and contemporary texts by Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin, Leon Trotsky. Edited: Fred Leplat and Alex de Jong London: Merlin Press, the IIRE and Resistance Books, 2016. 256 pages
Nearly a century ago, (...)
This rigorous but accessible study was prepared for a training course and presented in the summer of 1989. The French version has been published on Europe solidaire website [1] on January 21, 2016 on the occasion of the 92nd anniversary of Lenin’s death, followed by an English translation. The (...)
Introduction
Given the importance Marxists place on the fight against racial and national oppression, it is surprising that relatively little attention has been paid to the socialists of imperial Russia’s borderlands. Most of the inhabitants of the tsarist empire were non-Russian (Poles, Jews, (...)
The following comments by Mike Ely on Eric Blanc’s “National liberation and Bolshevism reexamined: A view from the borderlands” first appeared in Kasama Project . See also Eric Blanc’s rejoinder and other comments (“Constituent Assembly” and “Five Views“ ).
There is value in opening up a deeper (...)
The following comments by Eric Blanc first appeared in Kasama Project ; they reply to a contribution by Mike Ely . For other items in this discussion, see Eric Blanc’s “National liberation and Bolshevism reexamined” and other comments (“Constituent Assembly” and “Five Views“ ).
1) First of all, (...)
Eric Blanc’s essay, “National Liberation and Bolshevism Reexamined: A View From The Borderlands,” is “a stimulating and insightful essay” that will “inspire and inform reconsideration of questions long thought settled,” writes Richard Fidler . While I cannot confirm every aspect of Blanc’s analysis, (...)
The following contribution was written in reply to “National liberation and Bolshevism reexamined: A view from the borderlands” published on John Riddell’s website .
A stimulating and insightful essay. Along with the promised monograph, it will inspire and inform reconsideration of questions long (...)
A view from the Czarist empire’s borderlands obliges us to rethink many long-held assumptions about the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, as well as the development of Marxist approaches to national liberation, peasant struggle, permanent revolution, and the emancipation of women.
The following (...)
Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, Elissa Bemporad, Indiana University Press, 2013, 292 pp., $28.00.
For most Jews in the United States, the legacy of the Soviet Union is linked to anti-Semitism. This is understandable, given not only the targeting of Jewish writers, (...)
A short piece which I wrote three years back.....still relevant as I find today where women in revolutionary parties or mass organizations are not heard enough or gender issues are yet to be treated as class issues on the 99th year of the revolution.
Soma Marik, November 7, 2016
I. Populism, (...)
Vladimir Nevsky (1876-1937) lived the life (in the words of an autobiographical sketch written in the 1920s) of an “ordinary party worker”, a professional, in the Bolshevik underground. Joining the party in 1897, he was a mid-level Bolshevik praktik who played a visible role in 1917 conducting (...)
Review: Reinterrogating the Classical Marxist Discourses of Revolutionary Democracy, by Soma Marik, Delhi, India: Aakar Books, 2008, 496 pages plus bibliography and index.
2017 WILL MARK the Russian Revolution’s 100th anniversary. Socialists will again ask how the revolution was made and why it (...)
We have already posted online John Riddell’s Nationality’s role in social liberation: the Soviet legacy (ESSF, article 22308]. We reproduce below comments from readers and the author’s response to them. We’ll eventually add later exchanges.
My article “Nationality’s role in social liberation: the (...)
This paper was first presented to Left Forum in New York, March 20, 2010.
Just under a century ago, the newly founded Soviet republic embarked on the world’s first concerted attempt to unite diverse nations in a federation that acknowledged the right to self-determination and encouraged the (...)
* Simon Pirani, The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite (London/New York: Routledge, 2008), 289 pages. $160.
* Soma Marik, Reinterrogating the Classical Marxist Discourses of Revolutionary Democracy (Delhi: Aakar Books, 2008), 537 pages. $55. (...)
The October Revolution of 1917 was the most influential political event of the twentieth century. But since history is written by the victors, it is not well known that October was the opening shot of a vast and powerful challenge to capitalism that swept the industrial world and had echoes in (...)
THIS APPEAL FROM Russian intellectuals and artists on the 90th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution comes to us from veteran leftists, social democrats, artists and even children of Left Oppositionists, most of them politically active at least since the Gorbachev years of glasnost and (...)
When Bolivian President Evo Morales formally opened his country’s Constituent Assembly on August 6, 2006, he highlighted the aspirations of Bolivia’s indigenous majority as the central challenge before the gathering. The convening of the Assembly, he said, represented a “historic moment to refound (...)
Introduction
By Richard Price
Maxime Rodinson, the author of the article that follows, died on May 23 this year at the age of 89.1 Born in Marseille in 1915, his parents were Russian-Polish-Jewish immigrants who later joined the Communist Party, and he left school at 13 to work as an errand (...)
Review of Max Shachtman et al., The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism Vol. 1edited by Sean Matgamna. London: Phoenix Press, 1998, $14.99 paperback.
THE MAINSTREAM EXPLANATION of Stalinism is all too well known: The Bolsheviks were power-hungry conspirators whose (...)
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