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Fur flies over Lenin
22 Mar 2012
What has the debate over 1912 got to do with current communist practice? James Turley answers the philistines
Triumph of ‘revolutionary parliamentarism’
12 Oct 2017
Elections - as a means, not an end - were central to Lenin’s strategic thinking, argued August Nimtz in his concluding talk at the CPGB’s Communist University1
Taking elections seriously
05 Oct 2017
In his second talk at the Labour Party Marxists’ and CPGB’s Communist University, August H Nimtz looked at Lenin’s approach to the tsar’s first two dumas
Bringing Marx and Engels into the picture
21 Sep 2017
Continuity was the link between Marxism’s founders and 1917 Russia, argues August Nimtz, in the first of three talks he gave to the CPGB’s Communist University
In the footsteps of Lenin
21 Sep 2017
The official CPGB’s leading theoretician, Rajani Palme Dutt, followed the example of Lenin when assessing the reputation of Karl Kautsky, writes Lawrence Parker
Rearming the April theses
14 Sep 2017
With the help of some new insights, Rex Dunn argues that Lars T Lih’s continuity theory does not stand up, despite the new evidence he has uncovered
Giving 1917 real meaning
31 Aug 2017
Chris Gray reviews: China Miéville, October: the story of the Russian Revolution, Verso, 2017, pp369, £18.99
Lenin refutes a misreading of the April theses
31 Aug 2017
Reproducing a historic polemic
Lenin glosses the April theses
31 Aug 2017
In this fifth part of his series, Lars T Lih focuses on Lenin’s April 21 1917 Pravda article, ‘A basic question’
Supplement: The birth of a new system
10 Aug 2017
As well as celebrating the Russian Revolution, says Jack Conrad, we should never forget the counterrevolution
Supplement: Two excerpts from VN Zalezhskii’s ‘First legal PK’ published in Proletarskaia revoliutsiia, 1923, No1 (13)
27 Jul 2017
Part of the special supplement
Workers and soldiers: everything ‘in our favour’
27 Jul 2017
‘1917: The view from the streets’ - leaflets of the Russian Revolution, No16-17
Supplement: Thirteen to two?
27 Jul 2017
Did the Petrograd Bolsheviks overwhelmingly reject Lenin’s April theses when they were first proposed? The records show otherwise, argues Lars T Lih
Soviet leadership clashes with ranks
20 Jul 2017
‘1917: the view from the streets’ - leaflets of the Russian Revolution, No14-15
Crisis and degeneration
29 Jun 2017
David E Lowes (editor), Arthur Ransome Three accounts of revolutionary Russia Red Revenant, 2017, £6.90, pp212
First stage of the first revolution
29 Jun 2017
Lenin’s ‘Letter from afar’, as printed in Pravda, March 21 and 22 1917