The 1917 Russian Revolution, at least for a time, abolished the police. Instead of a professional police force alienated from ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture ...

This is the first volume of his memoirs which covers the two Russian revolutions of 1917 and the beginnings of the Civil War from the point of view of a peasant activist in a Ukrainian village. This ...

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1917 (691 pp.)—N. N. Sukhanov—Oxford ($ 10). Nikolai Nikolayevich Sukhanov was the first candid cameraman of the Russian Revolution: in seven volumes, he chronicled its events ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...