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 …
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“Going Back or Moving Forward” & “Speech to the 8th CPSU(B) Congress” by N. Osinsky
Translations by Mark Alexandrovich, introduction by Mark Alexandrovich and Renato Flores. Osinsky is the pseudonym of old Bolshevik Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky. Born in 1887, Osinsky …
Knowledge Democratization, Bourgeois Specialists and the Organization of Science in the Early Soviet Union
For the first installment of our in-depth study of Soviet Science, Djamil, Donald and Rudy sit down to discuss the scientific institutions and the practice …
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 …
Against Socialist Reactionaries: a response to Jacob Richter
Rosa Janis responds to Jacob Richter’s April 9th, 2020 letter to Cosmonaut on social conservatism and the left. Normally we do not respond to letters …
Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates: A Discussion
Christian and Donald sit down for a discussion on Moshe Lewin’s 1974 tome Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates. They discuss Bukharin, the Left Opposition, …
“Taylor’s System and Organization” by Nadezhda Krupskaya
Translation by Mark Alexandrovich, introduction by Renato Flores. Nadezhda Krupskaya is unfairly remembered by the identity of her husband. A glance at her page in …
Which Side Are You On?: The Challenge of the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution
The Ethiopian Revolution teaches modern leftists an important lesson about international solidarity, argues Ian Scott Horst. Way back in 1848, the young Karl Marx and …
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 …
Cosmic Imagination in Revolutionary Russia
Before the rise of the Soviet Space Program, utopian visions of space travel existed alongside serious scientific work to make it a reality. Donald Parkinson …
Brick by Brick: An Appeal to Strength
CLR Gainz argues that the left needs physical as well as mental strength if we are going to be victorious in making revolution and defeating …
The USSR’s Founding Mother
M.A. Iasilli on what Bolshevik militant Nadezhda Krupskaya can teach us about education and labor. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Since researching the stages of national development …