Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by WOOD Tony
In the decade and a half since the end of the Cold War, the map of Eastern Europe has been comprehensively redrawn. More than a dozen new countries have appeared as a result of the break-up of the Soviet Union and the Yugoslav wars of succession, an arc of newly sovereign states stretching from (…)
, by PRICE Richard, RODINSON Maxime
About the author
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 (…)
, by SAMARY Catherine
How has foreign direct investment affected eastern Europe? Is stable capitalist enterprise being established?
ANY balance sheet of foreign investment in the countries of Eastern Europe, to be meaningful, must be prefaced by some comments and clarifications. Firstly, on the social implications (…)
, by DRUCKER Peter
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 (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
This year we commemorate the deaths of three leading figures of our movement. Daniel Bensaïd Marxist activist and philosopher, emerging from the May 1968 movement in France, who died too early in 2010 after a life as leader of the French section and the Fourth International. Ernest Mandel whose (…)
, by LEWIN Moshe
The figures for September show that 44.4 million Russians are living below the poverty line. Twice as many as this time last year. Meanwhile the wheat harvest, at 50 to 60 million tonnes, has barely reached second world war levels. It will cover only a small amount of the country’s requirements. (…)
, by WEISSMAN Susan
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION is dead. The last of its veterans and contemporaries are gone, and the working class of today has little or no connection to the revolutionary movements of the inter-war generation that were inspired by the Russian Revolution. Revolutionary leftists may still debate the (…)
, by VERCAMMEN François
Trotsky made an inestimable contribution to the preservation and development of revolutionary Marxism in the first half of the 20th century, both by his militant activity and by his analyses.
This contribution embraces a vast terrain stretching from the comprehension of particular societies (…)
, by GOWAN Peter
Between the two poles of Blairite accommodation to neo-liberalism and nationalist populist accommodation to xenophobia lies a socialist left of many millions in the former Soviet Bloc in search of socialist advance. These people can be found in the parties from the Ukrainian left in the East (…)
, by HIMKA John-Paul
The subject of Ukrainian collaboration in the Nazi-directed genocide of the European Jews is a minefield. Over the past decade it has several times erupted into public controversy (notably over the Deschênes Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada, the trial of John Demjanjuk in Israel (…)
, by FARBER Samuel
AS THE MAN appointed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin to manage the secret files housed in the KGB, Communist Party and government offices, the late former General Dmitri Volkogonov utilized his privileged access by publishing a number of works, notably the lavishly acclaimed Lenin. A New (…)
, by WEISSMAN Susan
IN THE MOTHER of all factional struggles within the Soviet elite, during the “glasnost” of the 1980s, none other than Boris Yeltsin recruited the memory of Leon Trotsky in his anti-privilege campaign against corrupt party apparatchiks. Gorbachev, the wiser, neutralized Trotsky and undercut the (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Lenin and the Revolutionary Party by, Paul Le Blanc. Introduction by Ernest Mandel. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1989. 364 pp. $60.
There is no lack of books about Lenin, but this is the first attempt at a precise historical reconstruction of his organizational thought: (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Review: The Roots of Otherness: Russia’s Turn of the Century, by Teodor Shanin.
This two-volume work is not only “a distinguished piece of scholarship” (Dennis Wrong), representing “historical sociology at its best” (William G. Rosenberg). It is all that and also something else: a radical (…)
, by KOWALEWSKI Zbigniew Marcin
Written in 1989, this article tells the true but unknown and dramatic story of Bolsheviks faced during the civil war with an unexpected national revolution of the oppressed Ukrainian people, the conflict-ridden relationships between Russian and Ukrainian communists and the great dilemma of what should be Ukraine: a part of the Soviet but, as in the imperial past, “one and indivisible” Russia or an independent Soviet state?
“Despite the giant step forward taken by the October (...)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
When this document was first posted online, the whole ending part and appendices was missing. It is now complete and a number corrections has also been introduced. It happens that the caracter recognition program sometimes quite freely and creatively interprete what it reads and I am not sure (…)
, by HOLUBNYCHY Vsevolod, VYTANOVYCH Illia
Co-operative movement (кооперація; kooperatsiia). Co-operative associations are based on the ideas of economic co-operation and mutualism. By participating in a co-operative enterprise the members seek either to minimize their costs or to maximize their profits. The main features of co-operative (…)
, by MANDEL David
An electronic edition realised for the collection “Les classiques des sciences sociales” (Cégep, Chicoutimi) from David Mandel’s The Petrograd workers and the Fall of the Old Régime. From the February Revolution to the July Days, 1917. London: MACMILLAN, Macmillan Academic and Professional Ltd., (…)
, by MANDEL David
This study is posted online on ESSF in seven parts:
First part: On the Russian Revolution: The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Régime – I – Intro to chapter two
Third part: On the Russian Revolution: The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Régime – III – Chapter Four
Fourth (…)
, by MANDEL David
This study is posted online on ESSF in seven parts:
First part: On the Russian Revolution: The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Régime – I – Intro to chapter two
Second part: On the Russian Revolution: The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Régime – II – Chapter Three (…)
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