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Russian Revolution

The orphaned revolution: the meaning of October 1917

Posted on 13th October 2017 by Camilla

Many of the great revolutions of modern times continue to be celebrated. This is true, for example, of the American and French Revolutions, which have their national days (4 and 14 July, respectively), of the Irish Easter Rising, whose centenary… Continue Reading →

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Rescuing Lenin

Posted on 29th June 2017 by Camilla

A review of Tariq Ali, The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution, Verso (2017), £16.99 Can we rescue Lenin for the 21st century? In this the year of the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution we have to… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Lenin, Russian Revolution

Science, socialism and the Russian Revolution

Posted on 29th June 2017 by Camilla

Science matters to socialists.1 For one thing, it’s impossible to be an effective activist in the 21st century without having some awareness of the impact of science on society. The threat of global warming, the replacement of jobs by computers… Continue Reading →

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The Russian Revolution: tragedy or inspiration?

Posted on 29th June 2017 by Camilla

A review of S A Smith, Russia in Revolution : An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 (Oxford University Press, 2017), £25, Neil Faulkner, A People’s History of the Russian Revolution (Pluto Press/Left Book Club, 2017), £12.99 and Mark D… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Russian Revolution

Misrepresenting revolution: Art at the Royal Academy

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

A review of Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932 Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London, 11 February-17 April 2017 Little is more contested in art history than works from revolutionary Russia. The latest show from the Royal Academy (RA) and most of… Continue Reading →

Article Art, Russian Revolution

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

Tony Cliff’s Lenin and the Russian Revolution

Posted on 4th January 2011 by ISJ

In Tony Cliff’s original four-volume series on Lenin published in the 1970s, the second volume was entitled All Power to the Soviets and the third Revolution Besieged.1 Besieged may not mean destroyed, but the civil war, which began in May… Continue Reading →

Analysis Lenin, Russian Revolution, Tony Cliff

Conceding the Russian Revolution to liberals

Posted on 23rd April 2010 by ISJ

A review of Simon Pirani, The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920–24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite (Routledge, 2008), £20.00 Readers of this journal who have not had the unpleasant experience of wading through liberal studies of the Soviet… Continue Reading →

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