Russia & the former Soviet Union
70 years since the Hitler-Stalin Pact
By Alex Lantier, August 24, 2009
Seventy years ago, Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov met in Moscow to sign a hastily-negotiated Non-Aggression Pact between Hitlerite Germany ...
Lecture 2
“Socialism in One Country” and the Soviet economic debates of the 1920s—Part 2
By Nick Beams, May 7, 2009
This is the second of two lectures delivered at an SEP summer school in August 2007 that deal with some of the crucial conflicts over economic policy in the Soviet Union during the 1920s.
“Socialism in One Country” and the Soviet economic debates of the 1920s—Part 2
By Nick Beams, May 5, 2009
This is the first of two lectures, delivered at an SEP summer school in August 2007, dealing with some of the crucial conflicts over economic policy in the Soviet Union during the 1920s.
After the slaughter: political lessons of the Balkan War
By David North, March 30, 2009
March 24 marked the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the 11-week US-NATO bombardment of Serbia and Kosovo. This statement by David North, chairman of the international editorial board of the World...
The Bolsheviks in Power
The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd
January 22, 2009
Mehring books is proud to offer The Bolheviks in Power by Alexander Rabinowitch.
Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike
By Chris Marsden, December 27, 2008
More than 80 years on, the May 1926 British General Strike remains a defining moment in the history of the workers’ movement. Its lessons are essential for the development of a revolutionary strateg...
Leon Trotsky, Soviet Historiography, and the Fate of Classical Marxism
By David North, December 1, 2008
This paper was presented by David North at a panel on “The Intellectual and Political Legacy of Leon Trotsky” at the recent 2008 National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement...
Declassified grand jury transcripts confirm frame-up of Ethel Rosenberg
The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
By Tom Eley, September 13, 2008
The recent release of previously secret grand jury transcripts has revealed that crucial testimony was perjured in the conviction and 1953 execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for conspiracy to com...
Trotskyism in postwar USSR: the record of an anti-Stalinist youth group in the early 1950s
By Vladimir Volkov, June 5, 2004
In the Soviet Union throughout the post-World War II era anti-Stalinist opposition groups continuously emerged that opposed the bureaucratic regime from the left—from the point of view of the ne...
Women in the Russian Revolution
The letters of Natalia Sedova to Leon Trotsky
By Vladimir Volkov, July 1, 2003
The 1917 Revolution in Russia not only raised millions of workers and peasants to historical life. It also advanced to the center stage of world events a whole layer of distinguished representatives o...
Intrepid thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union—Part 2
By Frank Brenner, June 12, 1999
This is the second, and concluding, section of a two-part article. The first part was posted on Friday, June 11.
Intrepid thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union
By Frank Brenner, June 11, 1999
The nature of man himself is hidden in the deepest and darkest recesses of the unconscious, the elemental and the submerged. Is it not self-evident that the greatest efforts of inquiring thought and o...
