On the morning of Dec. 26, 1825, a group of Russian military officers supported by 3,000 soldiers gathered in Senate Square in the heart of St. Petersburg. They had assembled to force the government ...

The Russian socialist leader Iulii Martov warned that a revolution that sacrificed democracy would end up destroying its own ideals. Martov lost the political battle after 1917, but the development of ...

If Russia follows the path that it took after 1861, it will miss the greatest chance to leap over all the fatal alternatives of the capitalist regime that history has ever offered to a people. Like ...

A detailed look at the Russian Revolution of 1917, exploring the February Revolution, the fall of the Tsar, and the pillars of Russian society that shaped it. Trump threatens to block opening of ...

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 ...

Loren Goldner reviews John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History" in Insurgent Notes #7. This is a very important book, one of the ...