As Lenin's health starts to fail, the struggle to become his successor picks up speed with Stalin maneuvering closer and closer to power. The outcome of this struggle will define a century of world ...

Socialist Workers Party (SWP) branches across Britain hold weekly meetings where we talk politics and discuss campaigns.

What did Vladimir Lenin really think of Joseph Stalin? Explore the critical letters, personal doubts, and final political testament that reveal Lenin’s deep concerns about Stalin’s character and his ...

Communism, like Lenin, is dead. But Russian national chauvinism has come to an unprecedented life under Putin. Perhaps that ...

A short article by John Garvey in Insurgent Notes #8.

When Adolf Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker in 1945, he was directly responsible for the deaths of more than ten ...

Fifty years ago, in November 1975, a political officer in the Soviet Union’s Baltic Fleet launched an armed mutiny in hopes ...

A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy” is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this is ...

Call it the unintentional self-outing of an American far-Left winger. That would be the realization of Nick Fuentes, the self-professed admirer of Stalin who also thinks Hitler was “cool.” Over there ...

Loren Goldner reviews John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History" in Insurgent Notes #7.

When courts hand near-limitless power to one man, when soldiers and ICE agents patrol the streets like enforcers at a ...