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Last winter and spring hunger wrote some of the darkest pages in the sombre history of the Russian peasantry. At the time of my trip, in the autumn, there had been a substantial seasonal improvement ...
In the early 20th century, peasant movements combined a hatred of cities with imaginative blueprints for social and economic ...
This is the fifteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...
Ukraine’s national struggle is no recent or “proxy” concoction. Previous articles in Solidarity have covered the Holodomor, ...
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute loses vital NEH grant for translating Ukrainian literature, including works addressing Russian cultural imperialism.
The Ukrainian Marxist Roman Rosdolsky was one of the pioneering scholars of Marxology. He was engaged as a Marxist activist and social scientist in spaces ranging from European cities like Lviv, ...
In Russia, Gorter argued, the working class was able to count on having the large peasantry on its side in forging a movement which overthrew a weak and faction ridden ruling class. In Western Europe, ...
A bold policy shift aimed at recovering national sovereignty, economic justice, and strategic autonomy is needed.
Take its narrative. Ostensibly, the Eleventh commemorates the “Bloody Sunday” massacre of Russian peasantry by imperial ...
During the early 1950’s, the CCP also worked domestically to consolidate its power through a massive land reform movement to the peasantry ... in post-revolutionary Russia and China.
Few experts expect Russia to have any farm surplus problem ... an inevitable result of Marxism’s ingrained distrust of the peasantry and its insistence on headlong industrialization.