Revolutionary and Popular Movements in Russia :
Links to News and Analysis

Russia Administrative Divisions Map
  • Antifascist Russia
  • The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF)
  • The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) Leningrad Region
  • The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) Youth Section
  • International Center for the Formation of the Modern Communist Doctrine
  • Labour Russia on the Net
  • Left Russia: a Political Weekly
  • Left Wave
  • Lenin Mausoleum Home Page
  • Lenin Museum
  • Marksizm i Sovremennost
  • Northstar Compass - Published monthly by the Organizing Committee for International Council of Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People, Toronto)
  • Pay Us Our Wages! Support Russian Workers' Campaign Against The Scandal of Unpaid Wages
  • Pravda
  • Russian Communist Workers Party
  • Russian Feminism Resources
  • Russian Left
  • Russian Party of Communists
  • Soviet Zone
  • Union of Marxists
  • Workers Democracy
  • Workers Movement in Russia
  • World Socialist Web Site -- Russian Edition

    • Left Commentaries on the Chechen War
  • "Golden Toilets", In Defense of Marxism, July 2, 2003
  • "To please Bush: Russian gov't tries to ban revolutionaries", by Bill Cecil, Workers World, June 13, 2002
  • "As Russia's leaders falter, fumble and fail … The Crisis behind war in Chechnya" -- Socialist Outlook No. 32
  • "Background to the Russian assault on Chechnya: a power struggle over Caspian oil" By Chris Marsden, World Socialist Web Site, November 18, 1999
  • "Chechens defy Russian war machine" -- by Sheila Malone, Socialist Outlook No. 31
  • "Chechnya and the Left: At What Point Do We Care?" The Chico Examiner, October 7, 1999
  • "Chechnya in Chaos" By Ignacio Ramonet, Le Monde diplomatique, February 2000
  • "Chechnya: Russia's `East Timor'" By Boris Kagarlitsky and Renfrey Clarke, Z Magazine
  • "Chechnya: Solidarity against War!" -- Chelovechnost' and the Praxis Centre, Moscow), February 2000
  • "For the withdrawal of russian from Chechenia and Dagueston! For the independence of the left and the independence of the people of the caucasus from the Russian Federation!" -- Revolutionary Marxism, November 1999
  • "New 'freedom'--to exploit: The link between Chechnya war and Caspian oil" - by Brian Becker, Workers World, December 2, 1999
  • "The political and historical issues in Russia's assault on Chechnya" By Editorial Board, World Socialist Web Site, January 17, 2000
  • "These desperate, dispossessed people on the edge of Europe are victims of a dirty war the West chooses to ignore" By Patrick Cockburn in Ingushetia, 3 November 1999, Z Magazine
  • "Ruling through the barrel of a gun, Moscow style" -- by Boris Kagarlitsky, Red Pepper, February 2000
  • "Russia's Caucasian Quagmire" -- Rob Jones, Socialism Today, February 4, 2000
  • "Russia's Chechyan War: Storm Clouds over the Caucusus" -- Alan Woods, In Defense of Marxism, November 17, 1999
  • "Stop the Bloodbath in Chechnya: For a Socialist Solution" -- Socialist Party (UK) , February 4, 2000
  • "Russia: The Neo-Liberal God has Failed" - by Boris Kagarlitsky,Green Left, August 21, 2002
  • "Russia: Solidarity with the struggle of the Borets collective farm workers" - In Defense of Marxism, August 14, 2002
  • "Russia: Capitalism loses its shine" - by Boris Kagarlitsky, Green Left, July 24, 2002
  • "Russia's Potemkin Leader" - By Dusko Doder, The Nation, January 17, 2001
  • "Russia: Is there life for KPRF after Yeltsin?" - By Boris Kagarlitsky, Green Left, January 17, 2001
  • "Unicef report highlights situation of children in E. Europe and the former Soviet Union: The terrible price of capitalist restoration" By Elizabeth Zimmerman, World Socialist Web Site, January 6, 2001
  • "Behind Putin's sinister turn to Russian nationalism … "Reforms" aim to carve up the spoils of privatisation" - Boris Kagarlitsky, Socialist Outlook No. 39
  • "Russia: Neo-Nazis attack Jewish school" - By Lisa Taylor, Green Left, October 4, 2000
  • "`The reality of capitalism is inequality'" - By Boris Kagarlitsky, Green Left, October 4, 2000
  • "American Journalism and Russia's Tragedy" - Stephen F. Cohen, The Nation, October 2, 2000
  • "The battle for control of state television: Russian President Putin tries to break Berezovsky's grip" By Vladimir Volkov, World Socialist Web Site, September 28, 2000
  • "Russia: Disasters reveal regime's crisis" - By Boris Kagarlitsky, Green Left, September 20, 2000
  • "Victory for Russia's Astrakhan workers" - By Steve Myers, Green Left, September 13, 2000
  • "Russia: Submarine tragedy breaches the curtain of lies" - By Boris Kagarlitsky, Green Left, September 6, 2000
  • "Editorial: Imperialism & the Kursk Tragedy" - Workers World, August 31, 2000
  • "Moscow's Ostankino TV tower goes up in flames" By Patrick Richter, World Socialist Web Site, August 30, 2000
  • "Russia: Free trade unions in an unfree country" - By Oleg Shein, Green Left, August 30, 2000
  • "The sinking of the Kursk and the crisis of the Russian military" By Ute Reissner, World Socialist Web Site, August 29, 2000
  • "Putin's "Chernobyl": The tragedy of the Russian submarine disaster in the Barents Sea" By Vladimir Volkov and Julia Dänenberg, World Socialist Web Site, August 23, 2000
  • "Bomb explodes in the middle of Moscow: terrorism and politics in Russia" By Vladimir Volkov, World Socialist Web Site, August 21, 2000
  • "Russia: Young fighters against capitalism jailed" - by Bill Wayland, Workers World, August 3, 2000
  • "The Gusinsky affair: where are the dangers to democracy in Russia coming from?" By Vladimir Volkov, World Socialist Web Site, July 17, 2000
  • "Putin's visit to Germany and the redefinition of international relations" By Patrick Richter, World Socialist Web Site, June 28, 2000
  • "Russia: Gusinsky's arrest: the oligarchy squabbles" - By Boris Kagarlitsky, Green Left, June 28, 2000
  • "Russian President Putin moves toward authoritarian rule" By Vladimir Volkov, World Socialist Web Site, June 3, 2000
  • "Putin, Rasputin and Kerensky" -- Alan Woods, In Defense of Marxism, May 25, 2000
  • "The elections in Georgia: an analysis of Shevardnadze's victory" By Vladimir Volkov, World Socialist Web Site, May 2, 2000
  • "Provocation Against One of the Leaders of the Russian Dockers Union" -- Workers Democracy, May 2000
  • "Hypocrisy and double standards during Russian President Putin's London visit" By Chris Marsden, World Socialist Web Site, April 19, 2000
  • "On the tragedy at the "Komsomolyets" mine" -- Workers Democracy, April 2000
  • "The West courts Russia's Putin" By Patrick Richter, World Socialist Web Site, March 25, 2000
  • "Britain's Observer newspaper suggests Russian secret service involvement in Moscow bombings" By Julie Hyland, World Socialist Web Site, March 15, 2000
  • "Anatoly Sobchak (1937-2000): leading representative of capitalist "reform" in Russia" By Vladimir Volkov, World Socialist Web Site, March 10, 2000
  • "Azerbaidzhan's economic collapse" -- Workers Democracy, March 2000
  • "Russia: Astrakhan workers on strike" -- Workers Democracy, March 2000
  • "The rehabilitation of Stalin—an ideological cornerstone of the new Kremlin politics" By Vladimir Volkov, World Socialist Web Site, February 29, 2000
  • "Struggle of Russian workers for control of Vyborg Cellulose Combine" By Vladimir Volkov, World Socialist Web Site, February 16, 2000
  • "Russian President Putin introduces widespread state monitoring of the Internet" By Andy Niklaus and Peter Schwarz, World Socialist Web Site, February 4, 2000
  • "Russia 2000: Back to the Future" -- by Don North, The Consortium, February 7, 2000
  • "Red-Brown Cesspit" -- by Michael Malkin, The Consortium, February 7, 2000
  • "The Necessity of Gangster Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation in Russia and China" -- by Nancy Holmstrom and Richard Smith, Monthly Review, February 2000
  • "A political balance sheet of the Yeltsin era" By Vladimir Volkov, World Socialist Web Site, January 21, 2000
  • "Can Putin stabilize capitalism in Russia?" - by Bill Wayland, Workers World, January 13, 2000
  • "The transfer of power in Moscow: what it means for Russia's political trajectory" By Peter Schwartz, World Socialist Web Site, January 8, 2000
  • "Marxism, Socialism and the New Millennium" -- Ted Grant and Rod Sewell, In Defense of Marxism, January 3, 2000
  • "Lost pride of the working class" by Karine Clement, Le Monde diplomatique
  • "Caspian Sea: A new sphere of influence" - Brian Becker, Workers World, December 9, 1999
  • "The link between Chechnya war and Caspian oil" - Brian Becker, Workers World, December 2, 1999
  • "Russia: Workers in pitched battles to defend jobs" - by Bill Wayland, Workers World, October 28, 1999
  • "Robbing Russia" - Editorial, The Nation, October 4, 1999
  • "NY Bank scandal tip of iceberg: Looting Russia fuels Wall Street boom" - by Fred Goldstein, Workers World, September 23, 1999
  • "As fighting unions emerge: Unpaid Russian workers take over plants" - by Bill Wayland, Workers World, August 13, 1999
  • "Russian workers draw lessons from war on Yugoslavia" - by Bill Wayland, Workers World, August 5, 1999
  • "Russia living on borrowed time" -- Alan Woods, In Defense of Marxism, July 14, 2000
  • "Russia: Communist Youth" -- by Renfrey Clarke, International Viewpoint, May 1999
  • "On the mass organisations: Letter to the Russian Marxists" -- Ted Grant, In Defense of Marxism, April 26, 1999
  • "Soviet experience holds many lessons" - Dierdre Griswold, Workers World, January 14, 1999
  • "The Russian Crisis: Capitalism Is In Question" - by Hillel Ticktin and Susan Weissman, Against the Current, December 1998
  • "The Russian Revolution and "The Communist Manifesto"" - by Greg Butterfield, Workers World, November 19, 1998
  • "Oil Monopolies Divide Region: Caspian peoples have a revolutionary past" - by Brian Becker, Workers World, October 29, 1998
  • "Workers Democracy in a Russian Coal Town" - by Renfrew Clark, In Defense of Marxism, October 25, 1998
  • "Russian Students: Optimism Has Turned to Anger" - by Renfrey Clarke and Boris Kagarlitsky, The Nation, October 5, 1998
  • "System Error" -- by Boris Kagarlitsky, Red Pepper, October 1998
  • "Twilight of the Czar" - by Daniel Singer, The Nation, September 21, 1998
  • "Russia in Crisis: Grafted-on Capitalism Shows Achilles Heel" -- by Dierdre Griswold, Workers World, September 17, 1998
  • "Crisis in Russia - Free market failure" - by Ted Grant and Alan Woods, In Defense of Marxism, September 11, 1998
  • "Russian 'Reform': Solution or Problem?" - by Edward S. Herman, The Consortium, September 9, 1998
  • "Why Call It Reform?" -- by Stephen Cohen, The Nation, September 1, 1998
  • "A Report from Minsk" -- by Valentin Maslyukov, Monthly Review, September 1998
  • "Editorial: Yeltsin's Dead End" - by Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation, August 8, 1998
  • "The Russian Revolution Revisited: Myths and Distortions Then and Now" - by Susan Weissman, Against the Current, July/August, 1998
  • "The Harvard Boys Do Russia" - Janine R. Wedel, The Nation, June 1, 1998
  • "Russia Facing Long Hot Summer" - by Fred Weir, In Defense of Marxism, June 1998
  • "Russia: Five years of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation" -- by Boris Kagarlitsky, International Viewpoint, April 1998
  • "Western aid to Russia's 'Kleptocratura'" -- International Viewpoint, March 19, 1998
  • "The Destiny of A Revolution: Victor Serge's Russia Twenty Years After " - by Donald Filtzer, Against the Current, March/April 1998.
  • "Russia: The revolution... unfinished" -- By Boris Kagarlitsky, International Viewpoint, January 8, 1998
  • "Miners first target as anti-worker offensive begins" -- by Renfrey Clarke, In Defense of Marxism, January 1998
  • "80 years after Russian Revolution: Still a beacon of internationalism" -- by Charlie van Gelderen, Socialist Outlook, November 1997
  • "All-Russian Ruin: An eyewitness report" - by Alan Woods, In Defense of Marxism, October 1997
  • "Russian Labour's Autumn of Discontent" -- by Renfrey Clarke, In Defense of Marxism, October 1997
  • "Russia in Turmoil, an eyewitness account" -- by Alan Woods, In Defense of Marxism, June 1, 1997
  • "Russia's Communist Youth: where to now?" -- Green Left, April 23, 1997
  • "Russian Unions Begin to Fight Back" -- Green Left, March 26, 1997
  • "Strike wave highlights disillusionment with Yeltsin" -- by Ted Grant, In Defense of Marxism, January 8, 1997
  • "Russia Chooses--and Loses" -- by Boris Kagarlitsky, Current History, October 1996
  • "Why Yeltsin Is Bound to Fail" -- by Deirdre Griswold, Workers World, July 18, 1996
  • "Russia after the Elections" -- by Alan Woods, In Defense of Marxism, July 12, 1996
  • "Russia's Presidential Elections: A Race Without Winners" -- by Boris Kagarlitsky, July 6, 1996
  • "The Buying and Selling of Yeltsin: Market Politics in Russia" -- by Deirdre Griswold, Workers World, June 27, 1996
  • "Russia at the Crossroads: Between Two Elections" -- by Alan Woods, In Defense of Marxism, June 19, 1996
  • "Miners Die as Government Delays Payments" - by Renfrey Clark, In Defense of Marxism
  • Russia, from Revolution to counter revolution -- By Ted Grant, In Defense of Marxism
  • "Capitalist restoration in Russia, two years on" -- Iskra Research, August 12, 1994
  • "Integration of the ex-USSR into world capitalism" -- Iskra Research, March 17, 1992

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