Russian Revolution
On the Meaning of ‘All Power to the Soviets!’: Was the October Revolution a Bait-and-Switch Operation?
All Power to the Soviets! (Vsia vlast sovetam!) is one of the most famous political slogans of all time. But what exactly did this slogan mean? What did the Bolsheviks say when they explained and defended the slogan to their mass audience? What meaning did the mass soviet constituency give to this slogan when they expressed their support?
Who Was Larisa Reisner? An Interview with Cathy Porter
Cathy Porter, author and translator, educated at London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies and Cambridge University, has published over twenty books on Russian history, culture and politics, most recently Larisa Reisner. A Biography (2nd ed., Brill/Historical Materialism/Haymarket, 2022), shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, and its accompanying volume Writings of Larisa Reisner, her six books, translated with Richard Chappell, again for the Historical Materialism Book Series. Author of Alexandra Kollontai. A Biography, first published in 1978, she is also a translator of Kollontai's fictional trilogies Love of Worker Bees and A Great Love. This interview was originally published in About Narration (1975): Materials, Comments, Interventions, Edited and introduced by Sezgin Boynik and Tom Holert, Rab-Rab Press, 2025
