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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
Putting the record straight
09 Nov 2017
Over the course of this centenary year we have featured a range of different authors giving their evaluation of Bolshevism and the role of Lenin. Jack Conrad argues that those who still insist on claiming that there was some kind of programmatic break in April 1917 are, for their own particular reasons, desperate to defend a radically false version of history
Marx, Lenin and 1917
09 Nov 2017
Was it possible, asks Marc Mulholland, for a bourgeois revolution to end in socialism?
The character of the Russian Revolution
03 Nov 2017
This article by Lev Trotsky was first published in August 1917 as part 5 of his pamphlet What next?
Supplement: Trotsky 1917 vs Trotsky 1924
02 Nov 2017
Did the Bolsheviks believe the Russian Revolution to be ‘bourgeois-democratic’ or ‘socialist’? asks Lars T Lih in part 6 of his series, ‘All power to the soviets!’
Supplement: The Bolsheviks & socialist revolution
26 Oct 2017
Did Lenin’s April theses amount to ‘rearming the party’? Paul Le Blanc argues that the contributions of Lars T Lih and Eric Blanc do not tell the whole story
Party’s Sunday best
19 Oct 2017
The Sunday Worker reached a circulation of 100,000. And, far from shunning argument, it encouraged different leftwing viewpoints, says Lawrence Parker
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