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  • Marxist Left Review #20

    Rebel Unions Past and Present

    Issue 20 of the Marxist Left Review focuses on the place of unions in the class struggle: with pieces on the high-points of radical unionism, relations between syndicalists and the communist left, and the struggle against conservative officials going on as we speak.The full list of articles is:The NSW BLF: The battle to tame the concrete jungle by Mick ArmstrongNTEU Fightback: Rank and file ... Read more

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  • Lenin's Moscow

    by Alfred Rosmer ...
    Translated by Ian Birchall ...
    This memoir by a Comintern leader in the early Soviet Union is "a vital primary source . . . clear and unpretentious" (Ian Birchall, from the new preface).When Alfred Rosmer arrived in Russia in 1919, it was considered by millions to be the center of world revolution. It was also a society beleaguered by civil war and encircled by hostile powers seeking to snuff out the promise and potential the ... Read more

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    by Leon Trotsky ...
    During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. You will not find another such sharp turn in history especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 150 million people. ... Read more

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  • The Soviet Mind

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    by Isaiah Berlin ...
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    With a revised foreword by Brookings President Strobe Talbott and a new introduction by Berlin’s editor, Henry Hardy.George Kennan, the architect of US policy toward the Soviet Union, called Isaiah Berlin the patron saint among the commentators of the Russian scene.” In The Soviet Mind, Berlin proves himself fully worthy of that accolade. Although the essays in this book were originally written to ... Read more

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  • Witness to the German Revolution

    by Victor Serge ...
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  • Who Lost Russia?

    From the Collapse of the USSR to Putin's War on Ukraine

    by Peter Conradi ...
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  • Russia in the Shadows

    by H. G. Wells ...
    "Russia in the Shadows" is a 1921 book by H. G. Well. It is a collection of articles from "The Sunday Express" pertaining to Wells's 1914 visit to Russia. This fascinating volume provides an authentic and unparalleled insight into Russia at the beginning of the revolution, constituting a must-read for those with an interest in the subject. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 ... Read more

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  • The Fate of the Russian Revolution

    Lost Texts of Critical Marxism vol.1

    This book opens with a quotation from Albert Einstein, stating the case for socialism. Einstein, like almost every great mind of the 20th century who concerned himself or herself with the welfare of the working people, wanted common ownership and a democratic planned economy. But Einstein was stumped by the enigma of the USSR. He saw that there "the planned economy" was "accompanied by the ... Read more

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  • Vanguard of the Revolution

    The Global Idea of the Communist Party

    The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. In this book, A. James McAdams argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the ... Read more

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  • The Lost Revolution

    Germany 1918 to 1923

    by Chris Harman ...
    Series series International Socialism
    "Compelling . . . [a] classic study of the revolutionary process" (Neil Davidson, author of How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?).As the First World War was about to end in defeat, German sailors began to mutiny—giving voice to the widespread anger against the elites who had led the nation into war and the calamitous impact of that decision on everyday people. The events that followed ... Read more

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  • Molotov

    The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalins faithful servant, a dogmatic communist, and a conservative hard-liner of little or no imagination.Molotov was, indeed, Stalins right-hand man; from the 1920s to the early 1950s the two men presided over a brutal, authoritarian communist system that resulted in the deaths of millions of people. But there was far more to ... Read more

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  • The Soviet Theory of Development

    India and the Third World in Marxist-Leninist Scholarship

    Series series Heritage
    Until now the innumerable and widely distributed Soviet writings on the third world haven been scrutinized for the clues they contain on the Kremlin's aid, trade, and foreign policies, on Soviet strategies for local communist parties, and even on shifts in the Sino-Soviet Relationship. But they have rarely been analysed in their own terms and for what they are – the application of marxist-leninist ... Read more

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