6. The world war that began in 1914 was a result of the explosion of the contradiction of capitalism between the nation-state system and the world economy. This war, waged for the imperialist ...

The Russian Revolution was perhaps the most important event in the history of revolutionary socialism and the struggle against capitalism. For the first time in October of 1917 workers took power on a ...

It’s always interesting to delve a little bit in the democratic history of a country. In autocratic Russia, it was very short ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 1917 (UP)The Russian army is driving back toward Riga along a wide front. In the last five days it has advanced more than seven miles, the Russian embassy announced today.

14. The guiding perspective of the Russian Revolution in October 1917 was Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution. Trotsky drew on the lessons of the defeat of the 1905 Russian Revolution, in which ...

(1) IN DEFENCE OF COUNCIL COMMUNISM. There are so many ideological views conflicting about Russia 1917-1985 that revolutionaries should almost be able to see the nature of modern ideology and ...

Vol. 68, No. 10, Special Issue: Against the Grain: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Swain (December 2016), pp. 1635-1653 (19 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. This essay examines how Russia's ...

FIFTEEN years after the February days comes this long-anticipated chronicle by the exiled Trotsky — military genius in class war, revolutionist, historian with a ‘scientific conscience,’ engineer of ...