Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution and National Self-determination
The constitution born from the Russian Revolution is the first and only one to accept the principle of national self-determination — an important democratic right that the majority of the Western capitalist democracies still deny 100 years later.
Josefina L. Martínez
March 16, 2018
Women in the Revolution, the Revolution in Women’s Lives
What effect did the Russian Revolution have on women's lives?
Andrea D'Atri
March 5, 2018
Tamás Krausz: Lenin’s Legacy as a Threat to Capitalism
Left Voice presents an interview with author Tamás Krausz on Lenin's legacy.
Left Voice
February 9, 2018
Revolution and Black Struggle: Marxism as a Weapon Against Racism and Capitalism
How can Marxism be used to fight the interconnected systems of racism and capitalism?
Marcello Pablito
February 1, 2018
Permanent Revolution in 1917 Russia and Today
The theory of the permanent revolution can serve as a guide for action for working-class politics, internationalism and strategy for socialism.
Juan Cruz Ferre
January 11, 2018
What Can We Learn from the Bolsheviks’ Policy Toward Muslims?
The early Soviet Republic adopted more progressive policies toward Muslims than most Western “democracies” a century later. The following article examines the ways in which the Bolsheviks sought to build alliances with Muslim people, who represented one-in-ten Soviet citizens, in order to fight a common enemy.
Robert Belano
December 5, 2017
Memories of Leon Trotsky, From His Grandson
Esteban Volkov was thirteen when assassins tried to murder him. Because his grandfather was Leon Trotsky. Now ninety-one, Volkov keeps Trotsky's memory alive at a museum in Mexico City where Trotsky spent the final years of his life.
Nathaniel Flakin
December 4, 2017
The Decriminalization of ‘Homosexuality’ in the USSR: a Milestone in the History of Sexual Liberation
A brief history of the decriminalization of homosexual behavior in the USSR.
Rodrigo López
November 30, 2017
The Russian Revolution and the Real Movement of History
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Sonja Krieger
November 23, 2017
The Russian Revolution and the Real Movement of History
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Left Voice
November 22, 2017