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Bolshevism and the fight for women’s liberation
In this article Joy Macready examines the relatively unknown history of the Bolshevik’s ground-breaking policies for the liberation of women, which were subsequently reversed in the 1930s under Stalin. …
The Russian Revolution of 1917
Russia on the eve of 1917 was a country dominated by the Tsar and a feudal aristocracy. In 1914, the Russian empire, allied with France which was its main source…
The Bolsheviks, the Red Army and the Civil War in Russia
In 1917 the working class took power in Russia with remarkably little resistance from the bosses. But shortly afterwards the capitalists regrouped and gathered support from the imperialist powers to…
Revolutionary women: Clara Zetkin
We continue our series on revolutionary women with a look at the great German socialist Clara Zetkin pioneer of the struggle for women’s liberation, writes Natalie Sedley Clara Zetkin, born…
Women in red October
The specific role of women workers in the February revolution occurred because of the very acute way the war had affected them. The mobilisation of soldiers and production for the…
Road to Red October
How can today’s revolts be turned into a socialist revolution? To answer this question we must look back at what happened in Russia in 1917. In this spirit, The Road…
Trotsky: an Introduction
Richard Brenner gives a fact-based and thought provoking introduction to the life and times of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was one of the leaders of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia,…
Clara Zetkin and the struggle for a working class women’s movement
The period of the 1880’s and 1890’s in Germany was a period of rapid industrialisation carried through under the guidance of the repressive German state. It saw the birth…
