1918: The war of intervention
After the bloody world war between rival imperialisms, the British ruling class and its allies turned their attention to the infant Soviet Union…
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
1943: The battle of Kursk [print version]
Eighty years ago, the greatest land and tank battle ever was fought at Kursk, one from which the invading Nazi forces never recovered…
1917–1920: the Russian Civil War [shorter version]
After the October Revolution, soldiers from 15 countries invaded Russia in an attempt to destroy the Soviet Union, but it emerged victorious…
1917 - 1920: the Russian Civil War
20 August 2019
The October Revolution of 1917 triumphed decisively in Russia. Anti-popular forces soon conspired to overturn the new era; soldiers from many countries invaded to combat the revolution, but failed.
100 Years after the Bolshevik Revolution
100 Years after the Bolshevik Revolution
Thursday 16 November 2017 18:30
CPBML Public Meeting, Thursday 16 November, 6.30 pm [NB: change of time]
Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
In 1917 the workers and peasants of Russia changed the course of history. A century on, the ideas and thought that it inspired are still changing the world. Come and discuss. All welcome.
Soviet planning versus capitalist chaos
They called it the ‘Great Breakthrough’ – the launch of the Soviet Union’s first five-year plan in 1928. While the Soviet Union grew, within a year the capitalism world was plunged into slump with the Wall Street crash…
1: The five-year plan
1928 saw the first Five Year Plan, crossing the frontier from the capitalist world into uncharted lands of building socialism. Its achievements were unprecedented.
2: The Stalin constitution
The citizens of the USSR have the right to work, that is, the right to be allotted assured employment, with remuneration therefore, in accordance with its quality and quantity…
The Great Breakthrough - Soviet Planning versus Capitalist Chaos
The Great Breakthrough - Soviet Planning versus Capitalist Chaos
Wednesday 25 November 2015 19:30
CPBML Public Meeting, Wednesday 25 November, 7.30pm
Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Capitalism is wedded to the anarchy of the market. Socialism is about planning to meet the needs of people and nations – and in the past it has been spectacularly successful. Come and discuss how a planned approach can help rebuild Britain. All welcome.
Accounting for money in the Soviet Union
During Socialist transition some workers were in more mechanised workplaces than others, some less rationally organised or working with less up to date equipment etc. So the same product(s) produced from different locations could not at this time be directly exchanged with other products solely on the basis of the number of hours worked.
Bolshevik finance
How to run industry and finance without capitalism was one of the things the Bolsheviks learned how to do in the Soviet Union after the October Revolution – and we can learn something from studying how they did it.
Socialism and finance: lessons from the Soviet Union about securing real progress
The 1930s saw mass unemployment sweep across the world – though not in the Soviet Union, which planned its economy and took the concepts of credit and finance seriously...