This insightful narrative explores the unique socio-economic phenomenon known as Blat, which functioned as a vital informal ...

This is the first part of the lecture “Internationalist Socialism vs. Nationalist Reformism” delivered by Clara Weiss, Chris Marsden and Peter Symonds to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist ...

She is an associate professor of political economy at the London School of Economics and she came to that conclusion while writing her book Late Soviet Britain. As unlikely as it might seem, her ...

In this work, first serialized in Pravda in September 1925, Trotsky analyzes the achievements and principal dynamics of the Soviet economy eight years after the socialist 1917 October Revolution. Such ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...