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The devastation of Ukraine: NATO, Russia and imperialism

Posted on 29th March 2022 by Richard Donnelly

The ultimate outcome of the Russian invasion of Ukraine remained uncertain as International Socialism went to press.1 However, the brutality of the offensive was beyond doubt. This was epitomised by the siege of Mariupol, where shelling and airstrikes were said… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised imperialism, Russia, Ukraine

Grossman’s Stalingrad

Posted on 23rd October 2021 by Richard Donnelly

The year 2019 saw the long overdue publication in English of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad, its Russian original having been published in the Soviet Union in 1952 (albeit in censored form).1 Its appearance is particularly welcome to the English-speaking reader because… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised literature, Russia, Second World War

Ukraine: imperialism, war and the left

Posted on 10th October 2014 by ISJ

And when war is waged between two groups of predators and oppressors merely for division of the spoils of plunder, merely to see who will strangle more peoples, who will grab more, the question as to who began this war,… Continue Reading →

Analysis imperialism, Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine and the Bolsheviks

Posted on 26th June 2014 by ISJ

The Russian Revolution unleashed a vicious struggle between revolutionaries (above all the Bolsheviks based among the miners of the Donbass in the east), Ukrainian and Polish nationalists, and red and white armies. This sentence in Alex Callinicos’s analysis of events… Continue Reading →

Analysis Bolsheviks, Russia, Ukraine

Dented hegemony and Georgia’s nasty little war

Posted on 2nd October 2008 by ISJ

The media has been full of talk of a “new Cold War” since the brief war between Russia and Georgia. It is more accurate to talk of the latest episode of the “war on terror”—that is, of the US’s attempt… Continue Reading →

Analysis Georgia, imperialism, Russia, USA
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