It's not enough for an ideology to merely have a "good argument." Historical conditions must also combine to delegitimize the ...

The Russian Revolution was perhaps the most important event in the history of revolutionary socialism and the struggle against capitalism. For the first time in October of 1917 workers took power on a ...

History of the Russian Revolution of 1917: this is a deeply researched animated history video about the February Revolution in Russia. We begin in March 1917 as the war-exhausted Russian populace ...

Libcom's guide to further reading around the subject of the Russian revolution and counter-revolution of 1917 to 1921. Submitted by Steven. on October 22, 2008 The Russian Revolution and Civil War, ...

FIFTEEN years after the February days comes this long-anticipated chronicle by the exiled Trotsky — military genius in class war, revolutionist, historian with a ‘scientific conscience,’ engineer of ...

Contrary to the oft-told story of the Russian Revolution — that Lenin and the Bolsheviks swept the Czar from power in October 1917 and Communism was born — Lucy Worsley reveals that a group of women ...

6. The world war that began in 1914 was a result of the explosion of the contradiction of capitalism between the nation-state system and the world economy. This war, waged for the imperialist ...

Quote of the Day: Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor, saw his rule end amid unrest. His reign concluded with the fall of the ...

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