Soviet Union

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Romanian workers studying. Source: Tiraspol History Museum. Photo: Liberation School.

Typographers’ revolt: The day Bucharest stood still

Patricia Gorky

January 8, 2019

December 2018 marked the 100-year anniversary of the slaughter of striking typographers and workers of Bucharest, Romania. More than 15,000 men, women and children — workers from all factories –– filled the streets on Dec. ...

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Feature

A barricade during The Paris Commune, 1871. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

How “The State and Revolution” changed history

Brian Becker

September 20, 2018

Anyone who aspires to be a real communist or to understand the theory of modern communism must study Lenin’s pamphlet The State and Revolution. Lenin was able to nearly finish this monumental contribution to Marxism ...

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The Former Soviet Bloc

Rioters face off with Ukrainian riot police, a shield displaying white pride and Nazi logos. Photo: Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Images

The roots of fascism in Ukraine: From Nazi collaboration to ...

Sam Shipman

January 4, 2018

In recent years Ukraine has popped up in the mainstream media due to explosive political developments. Starting with the “Orange Revolution” in November of 2004, to the Euromaidan coup d’etat that was carried out by ...

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History and Legacy of USSR

Brian Becker on Empire Files: What the Russian Revolution proved ...

editor

November 7, 2017

Nov. 7, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the seizure of power by workers and peasants in the Russian Revolution, regarded as the most world-altering event in the history of civilization.

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Black Liberation

Black Bolsheviks and white lies

Peta Lindsay

October 5, 2017

A lot of nonsense has been written about the role of Putin’s Russia in subverting “our democracy.” As though our democracy had been functioning perfectly (even reasonably) well, until these shadowy Russian forces purchased a ...

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Milestones of Communist History

The October Revolution: Workers Take Power

Richard Becker

September 2, 2014

The Russian Revolution is a vast subject. An exhaustive analysis of it is beyond the scope of this writing. But below, some of the key points will be highlighted. The Russian Revolution took place in ...

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Milestones of Communist History

The Early Years of the Russian Revolution

admin

August 11, 2014

For the very same reasons that the Russian Revolution attracted the enthusiastic support of the world’s oppressed, it almost immediately drew the most bitter hostility of the world’s oppressors.

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The Former Soviet Bloc

A woman walks by a poster in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol

Crimea Referendum: the hidden truth behind the U.S.-Russia rivalry

Brian Becker

March 17, 2014

The same militarists who criminally invaded and bombed sovereign Iraq are now crying very big crocodile tears about respect for sovereignty in Ukraine.

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The Former Soviet Bloc

Gay rights activists march in St. Petersburg May 1, 2013

Russia: The struggle against anti-LGBTQ repression

Stewart Stout

August 27, 2013

The attention of the international lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community and its supporters has been fixed on Russia in recent weeks.

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Fundamentals of Marxism

The Russian Revolution united peasants, workers, soldiers and oppressed nationalities from every corner of the Czar's empire.

What is the real legacy of the Soviet Union? An ...

editor

August 12, 2013

The first time the people had the power The capitalist class and its well-paid intellectuals and pundits continue to argue that the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 means that socialism and communism are ...

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