Russian Revolution
Path towards world peace: Gorbachev comforts a grieving mother
December 17, 2025People’s World correspondent reflects on the ever-present danger of imperialism, and a historic moment in the Soviet Union in 1988.
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Lenin’s legacy: Working class leadership in the fight for democracy
April 22, 2022Without the October Revolution, the very concept of working-class rule, the idea that ordinary workers are “enough”—that they possess everything needed to create a new just world—would remain a distant dream.
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The Soul of the Russian Revolution
November 7, 2019"But, whatever may be the fate of the revolution, its flaming soul is immortal and will flood the world with light and liberty and love."
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The Russian Revolution through the eyes of the Global South
September 4, 2018Marxist historian Walter Rodney distills the Bolshevik Revolution for the Global South in a new posthumous book.
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The Russian Revolutions: 1905 and 1917
December 6, 2017Lenin said 1905 saw “the temporary defeat of the Russian Revolution.” Just like that time, the 1990s defeat of socialism will also prove temporary.
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