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100th anniversary of Rabotnitsa: time to recreate its success

  On International Women’s Day we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Rabotnitsa (The Woman Worker). Started by a group of Bolshevik women, including Nadezhda Krupskaya, Konkordiya Samoilova and Inessa…

March 22, 2014 / No Comment / Read More

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.  …

December 2, 2013 / No Comment / Read More

Twenty years since the death of the USSR

Dave Stockton looks back at the aborted coup in the USSR and the counter-coup by Boris Yeltsin…

August 31, 2011 / Comments Off on Twenty years since the death of the USSR / Read More