Between 1914 and 1917 Lenin and Trotsky foresaw that the imperialist war would set the stage for revolutionary eruptions in Europe. This perspective was vindicated with the outbreak of the February ...

Brovkin examines the revolutionary period from October 1917 through October 1918 to show how the Mensheviks and other opposition groups including the Socialist Revolutionary party threatened the ...

The Russian Revolution was perhaps the most important event in the history of revolutionary socialism and the struggle against capitalism. For the first time in October of 1917 workers took power on a ...

Leon Trotsky, co-leader with Vladimir Lenin of the 1917 October Revolution in Russia, famously argued that the “Russian Question” was key to the standing of every party on earth that claimed ...

In the early 1900s, the Social-Democrat Workers Party was formed in Tsarist Russia. This was the beginning of what would be the Russian Revolution of 1917. The party would ultimately split into two ...

​News24 host James Morrow compares the Democratic Socialists of America to the Bolsheviks in pre-revolution Russia.

One century ago this year, Russia was undergoing its Marxist revolution, an attempt to create a more just nation that instead led to one of the most brutal tyrannies of all time. It's a popular ...