Russia

Eighth in a series of articles around the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) O ur Differences is the generative text of the working-class political movement that conquered state power in Russia in October 1917. In it Georgi Plekhanov expounded his analysis of Russian society in the form of a devastating and systematic examination of populism in all its sub-sections, Lavrovist, Bakuninist and Blanquist alike. It is one of the great books of revolutionary Marxism. It was published in 1885, from exile in Switzerland, as Plekhanov’s summing up of the new working-class...

The Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow on 22 March was one of the largest terrorist attacks the country has seen in recent memory.

Michael Baker reviews "The Dmitriev Affair" (documentary film, 2023, dir. Jessica Gorter).

Alan Woods, chief writer of Socialist Appeal/ Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), claims that Ukraine’s secret services were probably behind the 22 March ISIS attack in Moscow.

Review of the Scottish Socialist Party pamphlet on Ukraine

Transnistria is a long, thin strip of territory, formally part of Moldova, sandwiched between the Dniester river and the Ukrainian border. The area forms about 12 percent of Moldovan territory.

Over at the Communist Party of Britain and their mouthpiece, the Morning Star , there have been some celebrations. At last, things seem to be going their way both domestically and internationally. Ukraine seems to be in difficulty and Russia has been making some small but significant gains. The CPB and the Morning Star in theory condemn the Russian invasion, but many of the paper’s writers have made little secret of their hope that it will succeed. Leading CPBer and regular contributor Nick Wright, for instance, has always cheered on the invaders and, early on, gloated that anyone joining the...

It’s been over two years now that troops arrived and tanks rolled into Ukraine: the country, and the world, awoke to a full-scale Russian invasion. Two years ago we spoke with several Russians to hear their thoughts on the war, and a year ago, we caught up with them to see how their lives had changed. In what has become a grim tradition, we today once again: what’s changed, what hasn’t, what’s next? Challenges & Change For Kirill, who relocated to Italy after the start of the war, things have settled. “I have more or less adapted. I began to understand Italian culture and the country as a...

After ten years of war, and two years of all-out invasion, Russia is turning the parts of Ukraine it has occupied into a giant military buffer zone, from which further assaults may be launched, the Eastern Human Rights Group (EHRG) has warned. The expansion of military combat, training and transport infrastructure, and the forced mobilisation of local men, was documented in a recent report by the group, which champions labour and civil rights in the occupied areas. While military institutions multiply, industry across the occupied territories stagnates. Russian passports are forced on young...

Alexey Navalny, erstwhile leader of the anti-Putin opposition in Russia, died in prison on 16 Feb, long before his 20-year sentence was up.