USSR
The October Revolution and the “National-Colonial Question”
October 17, 2017The October Revolution dared to pose questions that most revolutionaries in imperial states had avoided like the plague. But with the demise of the USSR, its lessons have been largely forgotten.
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Reflections on Revolution—the Russian and the one to come
October 4, 2017We need to clear out all the cobwebs of received opinion and reassess the Russian Revolution if we are ever to create a socialism worthy of the name.
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Funding loyalty: The economics of the Soviet Communist Party
June 19, 2017New book details the large-scale financial-political enterprise that was the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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This week in history: Nazis invade Soviet Union 75 years ago
June 20, 2016Seventy-five years ago this week, in Operation Barbarossa, German forces suddenly invaded the Soviet Union.
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Today in history: Anna Louise Strong is born, changes worlds
November 24, 2015Strong was employed by the New York Evening Post to report on the bloody massacre and the armed guards hired by Everett mill owners to keep the IWW out of town.
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