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, by HEARSE Phil
At dawn on November 4, Russian tanks, which had withdrawn from Budapest after the first round of fighting, returned. Six thousand guns opened fire on the city, raining phosphorous shells on combatants and non-combatants alike. Knowing that the attack was coming, “reform Communist” Prime Minister (…)
, by KOWALEWSKI Zbigniew Marcin
The insurrectional uprising in the Polish town of Poznan in June 1956 shone a searchlight on the crisis of Stalinism. Preceded by a similar event in East Berlin (in 1953) and followed four months later by the Hungarian Revolution (October 1956), the Poznan insurrection opened the great cycle of (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
“Results and Prospects”, from Leon Trotsky, was published for the first time in 1906 after the major experiment of the 1905 Russian revolution [ESSF].
The historical context
Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution, as sketched for the first time in his essay Results and Prospects (1906), (…)
, 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 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 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 (…)
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