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Book Reviews

While our journal no longer carries a reviews section, and shorter reviews are now featured on our website, Historical Materialism welcomes articles addressing key contemporary interventions in critical Marxist theory or literature reviews that seek to provide critical surveys of contemporary debates. The word length and criteria for these articles, including the peer-review process, are the same as for other submissions to the journal.

If you are interested in writing articles that critically address recent volumes in critical Marxist theory or critical literature reviews please contact the editorial board in advance with information about the volume(s) under consideration and a short abstract (250 words) outlining your argument.

If you are interested in submitting a shorter review, about a recent Marxist publication to the website, please send us your submission directly to website@historicalmaterialism.org.

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Losing Power: The Workers’ Opposition in the Russian Communist Party. A Review of The Workers’ Opposition in the Russian Communist Party: Documents, 1919–30, edited and translated by Barbara C. Allen

By Daniel Gaido

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The Species above Constraints: A Review of The Dawn of Everything – A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

By Markar Melkonian

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White Energy Workers of the North, Unite? A Review of Huber’s Climate Change as Class War

by Michael Levien

Heinrich Contra Teleology: A Commentary on Heinrich’s Materialist Reconstruction of Marx’s Early Life

A Review of Karl Marx und die Geburt der modernen Gesellschaft [Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society] by Michael Heinrich

A Review of Revising the Revolution

: The Unmaking of Russia’s Official History of 1917 by Larry E. Holmes

Ruth Fischer: The Ongoing Fascination of the Ultra-left

A Review of Ruth Fischer: Ein Leben mit und gegen Kommunisten (1895–1961) by Mario Keßler

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A Review of Call to Arms: Iran’s Marxist Revolutionaries

by Ali Rahnema

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Wherefore Art Thou Socialism?

A Review of Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

Ukraine 1917: Socialism and Nationalism in a World Turned Upside Down

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/

A Review of Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882–1917) by Eric Blanc

Ronald Grigor Suny

Towards a History of the Trotskyist Tendencies after Trotsky

A Review of Memoirs of a Critical Communist: Towards a History of the Fourth International by Livio Maitan

A Review of A Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow, 1891–1941: Dissident Against His Will by Mario Kessler

Daniel Gaido