54. The Bolsheviks, as orthodox Marxists under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky, knew that the October Revolution in 1917 was only the beginning of the world socialist revolution. The preservation ...
Mark B Smith’s Exit Stalin tells the history of a Soviet society largely without protest, without violent repression, without ...
The following lecture was delivered by Clara Weiss at the SEP (US) International Summer School, held August 2-9, 2025. It is the fourth and concluding part of the lecture “Internationalist Socialism ...
The Soviet Thaw didn’t begin with protests — it began with literature. In 1962, a short novel about a single day in a Gulag camp was legally published for the first time. Khrushchev personally ...
Most view the relationship of Jews to the Soviet Union through the lens of repression and silence. Focusing on an elite group of two dozen Soviet-Jewish photographers, including Arkady Shaykhet, ...