The Praxis Research and Educational Center is the independent, voluntary collective, founded in 1998 by scholars and social movements activists grouped around the Victor Serge Public Library in Moscow.

    Aims of the Praxis Center:

-        To study left (anti-totalitarian) social and political thought as well as the historical experience of workers’ and other liberation movements;

-        To develop and disseminate radical humanist, internationalist, democratic socialist and libertarian ideas;

-        To assist social movements fighting for human rights and freedoms, social justice, popular self-government and self-management.

Activities of the Praxis Center:

•          The Victor Serge Library. The Praxis Center organizes the work of an international Public Library, containing over 6,000 documents in six languages devoted to the history and theory of anti-totalitarian socialism, as well as to literature. The library was founded in Moscow in 1997 and named after Victor Serge, Russian-French writer, the anti-totalitarian socialist thinker and fighter; the Center also supports similar projects in other cities (like the Victor Serge Public Library in Sebastopol).
•          Publication. The Praxis Center  translates, publishes and distributes books, devoted to the history and theory of anti-totalitarian socialism, as well as literature. Special attention is paid to translation and publication of works in other languages previously unavailable to Russian readers.
•          Research. The Praxis Center brings together scholars, activists and researchers engaged in problems of social, political and economic theory as well as studies of various aspects of history of the anti-totalitarian left. The results of this research are discussed at seminars and annual international conferences organized by Praxis in Moscow.
•          Ideological and political laboratory. The Praxis Center brings together representatives of various tendencies among democratic and libertarian left and promotes dialogue between them. Praxis provides them with the open tribune at the Library and on its web site for discussions of contemporary socio-political problems and the elaboration of new ideas and common positions.

   

•         Participation in social campaigns and actions. The Praxis Center supports human rights, humanitarian, trade union, ecological and other progressive campaigns and actions, provides their participants with information and consultative assistance.
•                Partnership. The Praxis Center is a partner of the Global Labour Institute in Russia.  

The Praxis Research and Educational Center invites all those who share its principles and wish to participate in its activities to join us!

For more information about Praxis Center see our brochure (PDF format)

Write to us:

E-mail: info@praxiscenter.ru 

International Scientific and Practical Conference
THE NEW TRADE UNIONS AND THE DEMOCRATIC LEFT:
HISTORICAL ROOTS AND IDEOLOGOCAL LANDMARKS
November 2–3, 2013, Kyiv

The return of the RUSSIAN revolution

Nature and Perspectives of the Wave of Social Protest in Russia

The demonstrations of December 10th and 24th in Moscow, in which tens of thousands of people took part, show clearly that the period of social passivity in Russia is over; the Putin era is nearing its end. The last time such large demonstrations took place in Moscow was in 1990–91 at the height of the democratic wave directed against the domination of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Then, as a result of these mass actions, the whole party-state system of the USSR began to crumble. Those who participated in those events twenty years ago are feeling the same atmosphere again : revolution is in the air. The rising wave of protest has demystified the key myth of Putinism : the myth of a durable ‘consensus’ between the people and the authorities in Russia. What was revealed, is that it was not just a few small ‘marginal’groups but the mass of ordinary active people who no longer were willing to exchange their civil and political rights for Putin-style ‘stability.’ Many people were surprised by such an awakening after ten years of social hibernation. But in fact it was inevitable. The margin of security of the regime that had taken power in Russia at the turn of the 21st Century was limited from the very beginning.

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