Power began to change hands long before Lenin died. As illness weakened the Soviet leader, political rivals fought behind the scenes while Stalin used party structures to turn a leadership crisis into ...

Restoration or Totalization by Karl Korsch - printed in Southern Socialist International Digest [former name of Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils], Issue 27, January 1947, p. 10-12 ...

On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him ...

The finding that Alexei Navalny was killed with a rare toxin has revived the specter of Moscow's use of poison against ...

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.

Until recently professor of history Andrey Zubov used to be one of the highly recognised history teachers in the leading Russian universities. Today his professional activity shrunk to the his work in ...

He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...

Every nation considers nation building a work in progress, a shared vision of greatness, conceived and articulated by those who have gone before. Every nation ...

Leon Levy died at 96 after a life shaped by communist politics, trade unionism and the hard grind of the liberation Struggle.

Sir Alex Ferguson asked for help from one of his former Manchester United players for an important question but branded him "useless".

“Mr. Nobody Against Putin” provides a unique window into the mindset that Vladimir Putin’s Russia has generated.

Two characteristics of the American petty-bourgeois intelligentsia are highlighted in the Chomsky-Epstein correspondence: an infatuation with celebrity and wealth and a complete lack of genuine ...