Understanding the Timing of the Stalinist Terror
Why did the Stalinist Terror occur when it did? Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom investigates how institutional accommodation and immediate triggers produced these tumultuous events. For most …
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Letter: Critique of Cosmonaut’s Episode on Stalin
I feel that despite good research and the heavily factual nature of the Cosmonaut podcast’s first episode on Stalin there are several omissions along with …
Between Market and Plan: the Soviet Union in the Era of the NEP
Donald, Christian, and Connor sit down to discuss the political economic conditions of the Soviet Union during the period of the New Economic Policy. Over …
Lenin, History, Future: Response to a Critique
Paul LeBlanc responds to Cliff Connolly’s review of his book ‘Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution’, available from Pluto Press. I greatly appreciate Cliff Connolly’s positive yet …
Che and Mao: Revolution Within the Revolution?
In deconstructing the lives and legacies of Che Guevara and Mao Zedong, Doug Enaa Greene traces a shared thread of revolutionary opposition to Stalinist dogmatism. …
Letter: On Stalinism and the National Question
To The Editors, British Communists profess a commitment to internationalism and proletarian democracy- why then do we see a trend toward nationalistic, paternalist, and étatiste policy …
Letter: The Truth of Stalinism
The Cosmonaut podcast episode on Stalin provides a comprehensive analysis of the Stalinist period that serves as a necessary corrective to the vulgar anti-Stalinist narratives …
Running Aground: The RCP and Stalinism
Analyzing the intellectual output of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA (RCP), Doug Enaa Greene argues that, despite a few moments of minor insight, the Party …
Stalinist Cinema in Context: Ten Things You Might Miss Watching ‘The Fall of Berlin’
Sophia Homa provides some historical context for a classic Soviet film to celebrate the Nazi surrender in World War II. Today is the 9th of …
Revisiting the Lysenko Affair
In the second episode of our Soviet Science series, Donald, Djamil and Rudy sit down to contextualize an infamous episode of this story: The case …
Workers and Writers: The Communist Novel in Britain
The history of the British communist novel is ultimately the story of the political degeneration of the Communist Party of Great Britain. By Lawrence Parker. Reading: …
Komsomol Life: Interrogating the Soviet Young Communist League with Sean Guillory
Donald sits down with Sean Guillory from the SRB Podcast to discuss the Komsomol, or Soviet Young Communist League, which was often one of the …
Revolutionary Reels: Soviet Propaganda Film and the Russian Revolution
Shalon Van Tine provides an overview of Soviet Film and its development in relation to the politics of the USSR and Bolshevik Revolution. The Rise …
Carrying the Burden of Communist Man
Donald Parkinson weighs in how communists should relate to our difficult history. We can neither be in denial of our failures or refuse to own …