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Reflections on Revolution—the Russian and the one to come

October 4, 2017 By Eric A. Gordon

We need to clear out all the cobwebs of received opinion and reassess the Russian Revolution if we are ever to create a socialism worthy of the name.

Funding loyalty: The economics of the Soviet Communist Party

June 19, 2017 By Tony Pecinovsky

New book details the large-scale financial-political enterprise that was the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

This week in history: Nazis invade Soviet Union 75 years ago

June 20, 2016 By Special to People’s World

Seventy-five years ago this week, in Operation Barbarossa, German forces suddenly invaded the Soviet Union.

Today in history: Anna Louise Strong is born, changes worlds

November 24, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Strong was employed by the New York Evening Post to report on the bloody massacre and the armed guards hired by Everett mill owners to keep the IWW out of town.

No quiet on the eastern front: “Stalingrad”

March 11, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon And Dale Greenfield

Based loosely on Soviet author Vasily Grossman's novel, "Life and Fate," the film Stalingrad is a treatment of World War II's "bloodiest battle in human history."