Soviet Union
Requiem for a dream: 100 years after the founding of the USSR
January 11, 2023I belong to a privileged generation. I was born in the late 1960s in Kiev, the capital of a Soviet and socialist Ukraine, and I had the good fortune to grow up in the USSR.
Read moreLenin’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.
Read moreAlexandra Kollontai at 150: International Communist leader and fighter for women’s liberation
March 31, 2022As People’s Commissar for Social Affairs in Soviet Russia, Kollantai was the first woman in history to serve in a government Cabinet.
Read more‘The Wayland Rudd Collection’: When state power was harnessed to combat racism
February 4, 2022Imagine a world where a powerful global entity, leader of a worldwide bloc of socialist nations, poured its intellectual, artistic, journalistic, and organizational resources into the fight against racism and national chauvinism. Such was the Soviet...
Read moreThe Big Lie behind U.S. and NATO policy in Europe
January 28, 2022For decades, Western powers have spun a tale of an aggressive Russia threatening the world.
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