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This is what revolution looks like

The Revolution 1917 event is this Saturday 25^th February at Rich Mix London. Louise Bryant, an American radical and journalist, wrote a stirring account of what she witnessed in revolutionary Petrograd. This is an excerpt from her book 'Six Red Months in Russia'

Lenin's State and Revolution

The Revolution 1917 event is this Saturday 25th Feb at Rich Mix London. Lenin's State and Revolution offers crucial insights to those campaigning to change the world 100 years later, explains Paul Vernell

The moon and stars: Bolshevism and Islam

The young Soviet Union took measures which were radical in giving power to indigenous people, including the Muslim peoples of Central Asia

The tinder before the spark: pre-revolutionary Russia in snapshot

The preconditions of the Russian Revolution were hidden in plain sight, describes Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

Russia's road to revolution

The revolutionary events of 1905 profoundly affected the revolutionary parties themselves, argues Sean Ledwith

Must revolution always mean catastrophe?

Neither Cromwell, nor Robespierre, nor Lenin, could become an icon or avatar for the reactionary regimes they helped to overthrow, but Stalin was different argues Bill Bowring

1905: The 1917 Revolution's dress rehearsal

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was led by a working class who, in 1905, had already tasted their own power and experienced bitter defeat

Imperialist rivalries and the First World War - the world of the Russian Revolution:

The causes of the First World War and Russian Revolution can be located in the imperialist tensions of world capitalism argues Dominic Alexander

Alexandra Kollontai's appeal to the women of the working class

A leading member of the Russian socialist movement, in 1917 Kollontai published this appeal in the Bolshevik’s women’s paper Rabotnitsa

'A marvellous adventure' - John Reed‘s Ten Days that Shook the World

John Reed’s remarkable eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution is introduced by Judy Cox

Trotsky's introduction to the Russian Revolution

Trotsky's introduction to his history of the Russian Revolution gives us an insight into how unexpected the revolution was

18 June 1984: remembering Orgreave

As the government announces that there will be no inquiry in to the tragic events at Orgreave, Sheena Moore takes a look back at what happened

This is what revolution looks like

The Revolution 1917 event is this Saturday 25^th February at Rich Mix London. Louise Bryant, an American radical and journalist, wrote a stirring account of what she witnessed in revolutionary Petrograd. This is an excerpt from her book 'Six Red Months in Russia'

Lenin's State and Revolution

The Revolution 1917 event is this Saturday 25th Feb at Rich Mix London. Lenin's State and Revolution offers crucial insights to those campaigning to change the world 100 years later, explains Paul Vernell

The moon and stars: Bolshevism and Islam

The young Soviet Union took measures which were radical in giving power to indigenous people, including the Muslim peoples of Central Asia

The tinder before the spark: pre-revolutionary Russia in snapshot

The preconditions of the Russian Revolution were hidden in plain sight, describes Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

Russia's road to revolution

The revolutionary events of 1905 profoundly affected the revolutionary parties themselves, argues Sean Ledwith

Must revolution always mean catastrophe?

Neither Cromwell, nor Robespierre, nor Lenin, could become an icon or avatar for the reactionary regimes they helped to overthrow, but Stalin was different argues Bill Bowring

1905: The 1917 Revolution's dress rehearsal

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was led by a working class who, in 1905, had already tasted their own power and experienced bitter defeat

Imperialist rivalries and the First World War - the world of the Russian Revolution:

The causes of the First World War and Russian Revolution can be located in the imperialist tensions of world capitalism argues Dominic Alexander

Alexandra Kollontai's appeal to the women of the working class

A leading member of the Russian socialist movement, in 1917 Kollontai published this appeal in the Bolshevik’s women’s paper Rabotnitsa

'A marvellous adventure' - John Reed‘s Ten Days that Shook the World

John Reed’s remarkable eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution is introduced by Judy Cox

Trotsky's introduction to the Russian Revolution

Trotsky's introduction to his history of the Russian Revolution gives us an insight into how unexpected the revolution was

18 June 1984: remembering Orgreave

As the government announces that there will be no inquiry in to the tragic events at Orgreave, Sheena Moore takes a look back at what happened

The Revolution 1917 event is this Saturday 25th February at Rich Mix London. Louise Bryant, an American radical and journalist, wrote a stirring account of what she witnessed in revolutionary Petrograd. This is an excerpt from her book 'Six Red Months in Russia'

The Revolution 1917 event is this Saturday 25th Feb at Rich Mix London. Lenin's State and Revolution offers crucial insights to those campaigning to change the world 100 years later, explains Paul Vernell

The young Soviet Union took measures which were radical in giving power to indigenous people, including the Muslim peoples of Central Asia

The preconditions of the Russian Revolution were hidden in plain sight, describes Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

The revolutionary events of 1905 profoundly affected the revolutionary parties themselves, argues Sean Ledwith

Neither Cromwell, nor Robespierre, nor Lenin, could become an icon or avatar for the reactionary regimes they helped to overthrow, but Stalin was different argues Bill Bowring

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was led by a working class who, in 1905, had already tasted their own power and experienced bitter defeat

The causes of the First World War and Russian Revolution can be located in the imperialist tensions of world capitalism argues Dominic Alexander

A leading member of the Russian socialist movement, in 1917 Kollontai published this appeal in the Bolshevik’s women’s paper Rabotnitsa

John Reed’s remarkable eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution is introduced by Judy Cox

Trotsky's introduction to his history of the Russian Revolution gives us an insight into how unexpected the revolution was

As the government announces that there will be no inquiry in to the tragic events at Orgreave, Sheena Moore takes a look back at what happened

The Revolution 1917 event is this Saturday 25^th February at Rich Mix London. Louise Bryant, an American radical and journalist, wrote a stirring account of what she witnessed in revolutionary Petrograd. This is an excerpt from her book 'Six Red Months in Russia'