The revolution that smashed the tsarist state, liberated Jews from centuries of oppression writes John Westmoreland…

The Russian Revolution inspired a generation of artists to create new forms of artistic expression. Russia has developed a lot now.

Historian and activist Paul Le Blanc reflects upon the Year One of international working class struggle from Counterfire’s recent ‘Revolution: Russia 1917 – on hundred years on’ event…

Orlando Figes was enlisted by the BBC to trash the history of the Russian Revolution. In the run-up to Saturday’s Revolution 1917 event, Chris Nineham corrects some matters of fact Revolutions lead to takeover by demagogues The great bourgeois revolutions were the drivers of democracy. They removed tyrannical regimes and foreign powers including the monarchies…

The Revolution 1917 event is this Saturday 25th February at Rich Mix London. Louise Bryant, an American radical and journalist, wrote a stirring account of what she witnessed in revolutionary Petrograd. This is an excerpt from her book ‘Six Red Months in Russia‘…

Lenin’s writing of State and Revolution was interrupted by the revolution of October 1917 - it offers crucial insights to those campaigning to change the world 100 years later, explains Paul Vernell…

The young Soviet Union took measures which were radical in giving power to indigenous people, including the Muslim peoples of Central Asia…

Arthur Ransome wrote the pamphlet, ‘The Truth About Russia’, in Moscow in 1918 to win international support for the Revolution. The excerpts reproduced her are introduced by Judy Cox…

The revolutionary events of 1905 profoundly affected the revolutionary parties themselves, argues Sean Ledwith…