It might come as a surprise to people on the Left, the Right, and the media commentariat but orthodox Marxists have traditionally disliked urban riots. Why? Well, it’s complicated. But it essentially boils down to the need for discipline and… Read More ›
What lay behind the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s increasingly hostile attitude towards Jews? Was he always anti-semitic or did his anti-Jewish policies result from increasing paranoia? Let’s investigate why the head of the USSR victimised and murdered Jewish communists and… Read More ›
Putin has attacked Lenin for creating the Ukraine while idolising Stalin and greater Russian nationalism
How and why the 1917 Russian revolution degenerated into the totalitarian and bureaucratic nightmare of Stalinism
Communism and Islam moved closer together in the former Russian empire in the period after 1917 but the alliance didn’t last
Leon Trotsky could not have anticipated the horror of the Holocaust as he corresponded with Jewish socialists before WWII
