The Russian Revolution happened over 100 years ago, at the tail end of World War I. After centuries of being ruled by a sprawling empire governed by the Romanov family, combined with the devastating ...

The Socialist Equality Party in Australia and Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand are holding a series of public meetings in November and December to mark the centenary of the 1917 Russian ...

A hundred years ago, on November 7 (October 25 according to the Russian calendar), 1917, Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian government and established a communist dictatorship. The ...

Mark Edele receives funding from the Australian Research Council. His book, The Soviet Union. A Short History covers some similar ground as this essay, but in greater depth. It will be published by ...

Luxemburg reveals the counter-revolutionary nature and consequences of the Bolsheviks' nationalist policy of the "right of self-determination of peoples". Originally published as Chapter II of the ...