Russian Revolution

Lenin’s legacy: Working class leadership in the fight for democracy

April 22, 2022 By Joe Sims

Without 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.

The Soul of the Russian Revolution

November 7, 2019 By Eugene V. Debs

"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."

The Russian Revolution through the eyes of the Global South

September 4, 2018 By Lowell B. Denny, III

Marxist historian Walter Rodney distills the Bolshevik Revolution for the Global South in a new posthumous book.

The Russian Revolutions: 1905 and 1917

December 6, 2017 By Beatrice Lumpkin

Lenin said 1905 saw “the temporary defeat of the Russian Revolution.” Just like that time, the 1990s defeat of socialism will also prove temporary.

Considering the Soviet experience: Thoughts from an American

December 6, 2017 By Ben Sears

Were “crimes” committed? We are regularly reminded that the answer is “yes, certainly.” But if that is all we learn, we risk losing other valuable parts of the last century’s record.