In February 1905 a peaceful procession of over 100-thousand unarmed civilians made their way towards his Winter Palace. True ...

Discover Lenin's role in the Bolshevik Revolution, his leadership's impact on the USSR, and the controversial legacy of his Marxist governance.

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 ...

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 ...

Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, Group of workers harvesting tea near Chakva in Georgia, 1905-1915 (all images courtesy Wikimedia Commons) In the decades leading up to the October Revolution, the Russian ...

When Nikolay Gumilyov died in August 1921, his friends didn’t dare mourn him in public. The prominent Russian poet and dissident had been arrested and falsely accused of plotting an uprising against ...

The same lesson can be observed in many revolutionary or protest movements around the world, including debates now emerging in Sri Lanka regarding the future direction of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna ...

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 ...