Red October

The Bolsheviks Dared: Interview with Lars T. Lih on Lenin as Theorist and Strategist of Hegemony

As part of our series on the October Revolution, New Socialist interviewed Lars T. Lih, author of several books on Lenin and the Revolution.

by Tom Gann / March 6, 2018 / Red October

A Hundred Years of the Russian Revolution in India

Bhagat Singh was executed by the British in Lahore) when he was only 24 years old, yet his remarkable political life has continued to prove an inspiration

by Abhishek Bhattacharyya / Dec. 30, 2017 / Red October

Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory in 1917

Two excerpts from Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory.

by Kevin Murphy / Nov. 5, 2017 / Red October

October 1917 – Socialism’s greatest setback?

For the first time since the 1970s, the British left is seriously contemplating strategies for a socialist programme based on a mass-based socialist party winning legislative power in the UK.

by John Medhurst / Oct. 27, 2017 / Red October

After the End of the World: Re-reading the Russian Revolution

At a public lecture at the LSE, Sheila Fitzpatrick lamented that the end of the Cold War meant that there was little energy in the commemoration of the two Russian revolutions of 1917.

by Owen Hatherley / Oct. 22, 2017 / Red October