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, by BLANC Eric, MIEVILLE China
For those interested in engaging with the history of the Russian Revolution in the hope of more effectively challenging capitalism, a tension between the universal and the particular looms large. The difficulty that inevitably arises is how to disentangle what was historically specific about (…)
, by GREENE Doug Enaa
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 (…)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
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 (…)
, by BERGFELD Mark
Ilja Trojanow’s latest documentary‑fiction novel deals with two men, Metodi and Konstantin, who grew up in the Bulgarian countryside, went to school together but have been personal and political opponents ever since Metodi informed on Konstantin. While this secured Metodi a high‑flying career in (…)
, by BLANC Eric
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, (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Paul Le Blanc is the author of Leon Trotsky (London: Reaktion, 2015). Alan Wald’s review appeared in our previous issue, ATC 178 (“Between the Power and the Dream,” .
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MY THANKS TO Alan Wald for his generous and thoughtful review of Leon Trotsky. He raises important (…)
, by WALD Alan
Leon Trotsky. Paul Le Blanc. London: Reaktion Books, 2015, 224 pages, 35 halftones. Paper: $16.95. A Volume in the “Critical Lives” series, distributed in the United States by the University of Chicago Press.
Review by Alan Wald in Against the Current #178 (September 2015). A reply by Paul Le (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
This new intellectual and political biography of Lev Davidovitch doesn’t pretend to bring sensational new discoveries from the archives in Moscow, but it gives us a wonderful introduction to the ideas and struggles of the founder of the Red Army. Sympathetic but even-handed, it emphasizes the (…)
, by MATVEEV Ilya
The unveiling of a monument to Stalin (and Churchill and Roosevelt) in Yalta is an event both outrageous and telling. It is clear why it is outrageous, but it is telling for the following reasons.
On the one hand, the monument displays the state’s current approach to historical memory, an (…)
, by KOWALEWSKI Zbigniew Marcin
What drives Russia’s persistent imperial ambitions? This fascinating analysis traces Russia’s centuries-long pattern of territorial expansion and colonial domination, from the medieval Grand Duchy of Moscow through the Soviet era to today’s actions in Ukraine.
Drawing on insights from Russian (…)
, by Anonymous, MARYNIAK Irena
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. Trigger warning for sexual violence.
Anal and genital contact between consenting males became a criminal (…)
, by MORRISON Derrick
Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels Through the Revolution of 1905. The Ballot, the Streets — or Both. By August H. Nimtz. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 244 pages, $100 hardcover.
Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917. The Ballot, the Streets — or Both. (…)
, by ELY Mike
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“ ).
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There is (…)
, by BLANC Eric
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“ ). (…)
, by RIDDELL John
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 (…)
, by FIDLER Richard
The following contribution was written in reply to “National liberation and Bolshevism reexamined: A view from the borderlands” published on John Riddell’s website .
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A stimulating and insightful essay. Along with the promised monograph, it will inspire and inform reconsideration (…)
, by BLANC Eric
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 (…)
, by RENAULT Matthieu
Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev
Introduction: Marxism and Nationalism Revisited
In The Wretched of the Earth, from 1961, Frantz Fanon argued that
Marxist analyses should always be slightly stretched every time we have to confront the colonial problem.
This notion is an excellent starting point for (…)
, by RIDDELL John
In a recent comment to this blog, Tad Tietze defines Clara Zetkin’s approach to women’s oppression as marked by “consistent method, flexible application.” To portray this approach, he offers us an important speech by Zetkin to a convention of German socialists in 1896 . In my view, Zetkin’s (…)
, by TIETZE Tad
The following is a comment on my post, “Reading Zetkin in Context.” .
John Riddell
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John, I am unconvinced by your positions on both Zetkin’s views and the issue of “context.” On Zetkin’s views, it seems to me that while she shifted some of her specific views over time, (…)
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