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Bolshevik Party

A revolutionary of the “second rank”? Rediscovering Karl Radek

Posted on 31st December 2023 by International Socialism

A review of Radek: A Novel, Stefan Heym (Monthly Review Press, 2022), £20 Who was Karl Radek? At one point in this epic work of historical fiction, Radek refers to himself as belonging to “the second rank” of Bolshevik revolutionaries,… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks, The Russian Revolution

Women organising for global revolution

Posted on 11th October 2023 by International Socialism

A review of The Communist Women’s Movement 1920-1922: Proceedings, Resolutions and Reports, Mike Taber and Daria Dyakonova (eds) (Brill, 2023), £164 The Communist Women’s Movement (CWM) is little known today, but it became a significant force in the international campaign… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Bolshevik Party, Comintern, women's liberation, Women's oppression

Trapped in the crossfire: a Marxist history of 20th century Ukraine

Posted on 10th October 2022 by International Socialism

The continuing military assault on Ukraine by Russia, and the transformation of the war into a proxy conflict with NATO, has offered insights into contemporary imperialism. We have seen how the relative decline of US and Western European power in… Continue Reading →

Article Bolshevik Party, Russia, Russian Revolution, Ukraine

The Bolsheviks and antisemitism

Posted on 9th October 2020 by International Socialism

A review of Brendan McGeever, Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution, Cambridge University Press (2019), £22.99 Brendan McGeever’s meticulously researched book uncovers truly shocking revelations about the scale of antisemitism during the civil war that followed the October 1917 Russian Revolution.1… Continue Reading →

Book reviews antisemitism, Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks, Jewish Labour Bund

Lenin’s April Theses and the Russian Revolution

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

I shall never forget that thunder-like speech, which startled and amazed not only me, a heretic who had accidently dropped in, but all the true believers. I am certain that no one had expected anything of the sort. It seemed… Continue Reading →

Article 1917, Bolshevik Party, Lenin, Russian Revolution
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