Roger D. Markwick ‘Soviet Ukraine … can be rightfully called “Vladimir Lenin’s Ukraine.” … He was its creator and architect,’ declared Russian President Vladimir Putin, three days before he launched an illegal invasion of Ukraine. In Putin’s mind, Ukraine is an illegitimate state: the bastard offspring of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. ‘Modern Ukraine’, Putin vehemently
Gregoris Ioannou* Simon Clarke was both a scholar of social theory and Marxian thought with deep knowledge of the classic texts and an empirical sociologist analysing contemporary labour relations. He was a political economy scholar whose analysis traversed the macro, meso, and micro levels, situating employment within institutions, labour markets and class relations connecting dynamics
Historical Materialism London 2022 ‘Facing the Abyss: An Epoch of Permanent War and Counterrevolution’ 10–13 November 2022, SOAS, Thornhaugh Square, London, WC1H 0XG FINAL PROGRAMME AVAILABLE HEREABSTRACTS AVAILABLE HERE Online registration is now closed, but you can still participate in the conference by paying on the door as of Thursday. For all enquiries, please contact: info[at]historicalmaterialism.org The
A Review of Karl Marx und die Geburt der modernen Gesellschaft [Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society] by Michael Heinrich Darren Roso Independent Researcher, Melbourne, Australia darrenroso@gmail.com Michael Heinrich, (2018) Karl Marx und die Geburt der modernen Gesellschaft. Band 1: Biographie und Werkentwicklung: 1818–1841, Stuttgart: Schmetterling Verlag. Abstract Michael Heinrich has written the
: The Unmaking of Russia’s Official History of 1917 by Larry E. Holmes Barbara C. Allen Associate Professor, History Department, La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA allenb@lasalle.edu Larry E. Holmes, (2021) Revising the Revolution: The Unmaking of Russia’s Official History of 1917, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Larry E. Holmes’s scholarship has largely revolved around
A Review of Ruth Fischer: Ein Leben mit und gegen Kommunisten (1895–1961) by Mario Keßler Nathaniel Flakin Independent Researcher, Berlin, Germany Mario Keßler, (2013) Ruth Fischer: Ein Leben mit und gegen Kommunisten (1895–1961), Vienna: Böhlau Verlag. On February 18, 2022, three Stolpersteine were placed at Andreasberger Straße 9 in Britz, in Berlin’s Neukölln district. The
by Ali Rahnema Peyman Vahabzadeh Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, Canada peymanv@uvic.ca Ali Rahnema, (2021) Call to Arms: Iran’s Marxist Revolutionaries, London: OneWorld. Call to Arms presents the latest addition to a trail of literature surrounding the People’s Fadai Guerrillas (PFG, in Persian: Cherikha-ye Fadai-ye Khalq, later the Organisation of Iranian People’s Fadai Guerrillas,
A Review of Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys Matt McManus Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada matthew.mcmanus@ucalgary.ca Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, (2020) Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn, London:
Socialist Internationalism and the Ukraine War Rohini Hensman How do the working people of the world transform themselves from a plethora of groups waging a multitude of scattered struggles for survival and dignity to a revolutionary force capable of ending capitalism, governing the earth, and taking over production? They have innumerable tasks before them, but
A Review of The Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Ukraine, 1897–1918, by Marko BojcunOriginally published on Pirani’s website: https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2021/11/01/ukraine-1917-socialism-and-nationalism-in-a-world-turned-upside-down/ Simon Pirani Honorary Professor, University of Durham, UK simon.pirani@durham.ac.uk Marko Bojcun, (2021) The Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Ukraine, 1897–1918, Historical Materialism Book Series, Leiden: Brill. October 1917: the climax of the
Ronald Grigor Suny William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, USA rgsuny@umich.edu Eric Blanc, (2021) Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882–1917), Leiden: Brill. In the decade after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the history of Russian and Soviet labour and
Christopher Ford Published here is a series of rare texts of the debates of the Ukrainian Marxists of the Ukrainian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party at the crucial turning point of the revolution in January 1919. Christopher Ford is author of UKAPISME – Une Gauche perdue, Le marxisme anti-colonial dans la révolution ukrainienne 1917 – 1925 (Ibidem
