Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, 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 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 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 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 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 (…)
, 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
Third (…)
, 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
Third (…)
, 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
Third (…)
, 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
Third (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
This text was the “Mémoire de maîtrise” for Daniel Bensaïd’s MA in Philosophy under the supervision of Henri Lefebvre in 1968. The original version of this text can be found at Le site de Daniel Bensaïd. It was translated by Patrick King for the online Viewpoint Magazine and reproduced on IVP (…)
, by TROTSKY Leon / TROTSKI Léon / TROTSKY Léon
1. Thermidor in the Family
The October revolution honestly fulfilled its obligations in relation to woman. The young government not only gave her all political and legal rights in equality with man, but, what is more important, did all that it could, and in any case incomparably more than any (…)
, by TROTSKY Leon / TROTSKI Léon / TROTSKY Léon
Taken from the Introduction to the First (Russian) Edition
Vulgar ‘Marxism’ has worked out a pattern of historical development according to which every bourgeois society sooner or later secures a democratic regime, after which the proletariat, under conditions of democracy, is gradually (…)
, by TROTSKY Leon / TROTSKI Léon / TROTSKY Léon
I HAVE RECEIVED, COMRADES, from the bureau of your cell, documents outlining your university’s work over three years. At my request the comrades marked out all the most essential points with a red pencil thereby considerably easing my task of becoming familiar with the documents for, and I do (…)
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