Category: Russian Marxists

Immediately after the Russian Revolution many western Marxists questioned whether socialism was possible in Russia.

Mach's positivism also influenced many Russian Marxists, such as Alexander Bogdanov ( 1873 – 1928 ).

In a period immediately after the Russian Revolution, the mode in which democracy was organised ( elections within workplace ' soviets ') automatically disenfranchised capitalists ( who weren't a part of the workforce ); however, Marxists such as Lenin argued that other forms of a ' dictatorship of the proletariat ' in more developed countries would include capitalists among the electorate.

Category: Russian Marxists

It was during this period that Plekhanov began to write and publish the first of his important political works, including the pamphlet Socialism and Political Struggle ( 1883 ) and the full-length book Our Differences ( 1885 ) These works first expressed the Marxist position for a Russian audience and delineated the points of departure of the Marxists from the Populist movement.

Indeed, V. I. Lenin would later comment that Plekhanov's book " helped educate a whole generation of Russian Marxists.

But the path of reform appeared blocked to the Russian Marxists while Russia remained the bulwark of reaction.

In the preface to the 1882 Russian edition to the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels had saluted the Russian Marxists who, they said, " formed the vanguard of revolutionary action in Europe ".

Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin opposed the Marxist aim of dictatorship of the proletariat in favour of universal rebellion, and allied himself with the federalists in the First International before his expulsion by the Marxists. In 1864 the International Workingmen's Association ( sometimes called the " First International ") united diverse revolutionary currents including French followers of Proudhon, Blanquists, Philadelphes, English trade unionists, socialists and social democrats.

The first major armed conflicts between anarchists and Marxists occurred during the 1917 – 1923 revolutions in the Russian Empire between urban anarchists, rural Makhnovist anarchists, the Marxist Menshevik Russian Social Democratic Party and the Marxist Bolshevik Russian Social Democratic Party.

Both anarchists and Marxists participated in the overthrow of the Tsar in February 1917 in the beginning stages of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

Category: Russian Marxists

Category: Russian Marxists

Category: Russian Marxists

Category: Russian Marxists

Category: Russian Marxists

Category: Russian Marxists

In the late 19th century Russian Marxists and other leftist revolutionaries adopted tovarishch ( abbreviated tov.

Category: Russian Marxists

By 1900, Struve had become a leader of the revisionist, i. e. moderate, wing of Russian Marxists.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

A variation of a White Russian made with skim milk is known as an Anna Kournikova.

The Armenian Government is working toward closing the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant and has already made an agreement with Russian " businessmen " about the construction and operation and ownage of a new Nuclear power plant.

During the years 1106-1107 A. D., a Russian Orthodox Abbot named Daniel made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and recorded his experiences.

These and other works raised his reputation so high that the most flattering offers were sent to him from the Russian court to induce him to remove to St Petersburg, but these were declined, although many of his finest works made their way to the Hermitage Museum.

According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.

It is sometimes made with cola, in which case it is referred to as a Dirty Black Russian, as opposed to Clean when without it.

* The Black Magic, a sour twist on the Black Russian, can be made by adding a dash of lemon juice and a lemon twist garnish.

* Pine Cone ( Fabergé egg ), a jewelled enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1900

An attempt was therefore made to send more troops from Tientsin, where British ships had been joined by French, German, Russian, Austrian, Italian and Japanese.

The first Russian examples were all made by Yevgeni Bauer for Khanzhonkov during the First World War, and include Grezy, Schastye vechnoi nochi, and Posle smerti, all from 1915.

In the end, the economic and political investments that Germany had made in Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin had paid off.

The Russian GLObal NAvigation Satellite System ( GLONASS ) was in use by only the Russian military, until it was made fully available to civilians in 2007.

This was the outcome of the Russo-Swedish War from 1741 to 1743 where the Russian Empress made the imposition of her relative Adolf Frederick as the heir to the Swedish Throne, to succeed Frederick I who lacked legitimate issue, as a peace condition.

'"-He informed Marlow " that it was Kurtz who had ordered the attack to be made on the steamer "-The harlequin-like Russian refers to a canoe waiting for him, and adds: "' Ah!

Eastern influence remained strong well until the 17th century, when Russian rulers made a conscious effort to modernize their country.

A major factor in the ascendancy of Moscow was the cooperation of its rulers with the Mongol overlords, who granted them the title of Grand Prince of Moscow and made them agents for collecting the Tatar tribute from the Russian principalities.

Lönnrot made his eighth field trip to the Russian border town of Lapukka where the great singer Arhippa Perttunen had learned his trade.

At subsequent congresses of the Russian Communist Party and meetings of the ECCI, Radek and Brandler were made the scapegoats for the defeat of the revolution by Zinoviev, with Radek being removed from the ECCI at the Fifth Congress of the Comintern

In New York City he wrote articles for the local Russian language socialist newspaper Novy Mir and the Yiddish language daily Der Forverts ( The Forward ) in translation and made speeches to Russian émigrés.