Posts in English

The Eurocommunist “solution” - 31 January 2026

Anatoly Chernyaev’s 1973 diary (3): Georges Marchais’s “democratic challenge” - 28 January 2026

“They’re keeping the Tashkent earthquake from the public” - 26 January 2026

Before Chernobyl - 25 January 2026

Stalin’s belatedly completed corpus - 19 January 2026

Anatoly Chernyaev’s 1973 diary (2): The poverty of bureaucratic planning (2) - 16 January 2026

Anatoly Chernyaev’s 1973 diary (1): Decay as seen from the Kremlin - 11 January 2026

Publication update: Michael Roberts’s blog back online - 8 January 2026

WordPress purges Michael Roberts’s blog - 7 January 2026

The Health System in Gaza Has Collapsed - 6 January 2026

History, Politics and Economy turns one! - 21 December 2025

Felix Chuev asks the uncomfortable question: Stalin and religion (and Yordam Kitap’s deliberate omissions) - 19 December 2025

The removal of Stalin from the mausoleum - 16 December 2025

The relevance of the article “Lenin and imperialist war” - 6 December 2025

From the Balseros to the present day: The unceasing crisis of the Cuban people - 26 November 2025

The collapse of the Cuban economy - 24 November 2025

A list of shame - 20 November 2025

Albert Rhys Williams as witness - 17 November 2025

Thus spoke Stalin! - 8 November 2025

There is no October Revolution without Trotsky! - 7 November 2025

Arthur Ransome as witness - 24 October 2025

Trotsky in Istanbul (Troçki İstanbul’da) - Notes on Ömer Sami Coşar's book - 20 October 2025

Stalinist cartoons - 16 October 2025

Interesting book, misleading cover - 12 October 2025

On Vartan İhmalyan’s political autobiography, Bir Yaşam Öyküsü (A Life Story) (11): From Vartan İhmalyan’s pen: İsmail Bilen (5) - 10 October 2025

On Vartan İhmalyan’s political autobiography, Bir Yaşam Öyküsü (A Life Story) (10): From Vartan İhmalyan’s pen: İsmail Bilen (4) - 6 October 2025

On Vartan İhmalyan’s political autobiography, Bir Yaşam Öyküsü (A Life Story) (9): From Vartan İhmalyan’s pen: İsmail Bilen (3) - 19 September 2025

On Vartan İhmalyan’s political autobiography, Bir Yaşam Öyküsü (A Life Story) (8): From Vartan İhmalyan’s pen: İsmail Bilen (2) - 15 September 2025

On Vartan İhmalyan’s political autobiography, Bir Yaşam Öyküsü (A Life Story) (7): From Vartan İhmalyan’s pen: İsmail Bilen (1) - 13 September 2025

On Vartan İhmalyan’s political autobiography, Bir Yaşam Öyküsü (A Life Story) (6): From Vartan İhmalyan’s pen: Aram Pehlivanyan (3) - 11 September 2025

On Vartan İhmalyan’s political autobiography, Bir Yaşam Öyküsü (A Life Story) (5): From Vartan İhmalyan’s pen: Aram Pehlivanyan (2) - 8 September 2025

On Vartan İhmalyan’s political autobiography, Bir Yaşam Öyküsü (A Life Story) (4): From Vartan İhmalyan’s pen: Aram Pehlivanyan (1) - 6 September 2025

On Vartan İhmalyan’s political autobiography, Bir Yaşam Öyküsü (A Life Story) (3): Vartan İhmalyan’s superficial impressionism - 3 September 2025

On Vartan İhmalyan’s political autobiography, Bir Yaşam Öyküsü (A Life Story) (2): The period in which İhmalyan wrote his political autobiography - 26 August 2025

On Vartan İhmalyan’s political autobiography, Bir Yaşam Öyküsü (A Life Story) (1): Who was Vartan İhmalyan? - 23 August 2025

George Lansbury as witness - 14 August 2025

Anatoly Chernyaev’s 1972 diary (6): Shostakovich's tragedy - 10 August 2025

Anatoly Chernyaev’s 1972 diary (5): The little-known Hungarian uprising of 1972 - 2 August 2025

Anatoly Chernyaev’s 1972 diary (4): Famine, cholera, and the summer retreats of the Stalinist bureaucracy - 28 July 2025

The Kremlin bureaucracy’s “Potemkin” vehicles - 23 July 2025

Anatoly Chernyaev’s 1972 diary (3): The Soviet automotive industry through the eyes of a Renault executive - 20 July 2025

Anatoly Chernyaev’s 1972 diary (2): Selling off Siberia to the imperialist powers - 13 July 2025

Anatoly Chernyaev’s 1972 diary (1): The poverty of bureaucratic planning - 10 July 2025

Chernyaev’s 1972 diary - 8 July 2025

A homosexual Communist’s letter to Stalin - 5 July 2025

The Communist Party of Great Britain as witness - 27 June 2025

Mikhail Sokolov as false witness - 20 June 2025

Ottoman press as witness - 13 June 2025

Anatoly Lunacharsky as witness - 8 June 2025

Alfred Rosmer as witness - 5 June 2025

American press as witness - 2 June 2025

Molotov confirms Stalin’s testimony - 31 May 2025

Joseph Stalin as witness - 29 May 2025

Louise Bryant as witness - 25 May 2025

John Reed as witness - 22 May 2025

Rosa Luxemburg as witness - 6 May 2025

A recently released Turkish intelligence report concerning Trotsky (Part 5) - 2 May 2025

A recently released Turkish intelligence report concerning Trotsky (Part 4) - 28 April 2025

A recently released Turkish intelligence report concerning Trotsky (Part 3) - 28 April 2025

A recently released Turkish intelligence report concerning Trotsky (Part 2) - 27 April 2025

A recently released Turkish intelligence report concerning Trotsky (Part 1) - 26 April 2025

Soviet Stalinism and secrecy: Gorbachev's revelations - 10 April 2025

Seven years with Trotsky: An interview with Jean van Heijenoort (Part 2) - 4 April 2025

Seven years with Trotsky: An interview with Jean van Heijenoort (Part 1) - 3 April 2025

Is democratic centralism inherently authoritarian? - 29 March 2025

The Nosaka Scandal - 26 March 2025

The forgotten story of Japanese communists in the Soviet Union - 21 March 2025

Enver Hoxha’s theatre of power: Gün Zileli's testimony - 16 March 2025

Mao's theatre of power - 10 March 2025

Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Production Complex: A microcosm of the structural problems of Soviet industry - 5 March 2025

Stalin's massacre of foreign communists - 28 February 2025

Mihri Belli and the Greek Civil War: Stalinism, Internationalism, and Social-Patriotism - 23 February 2025

The other three comrades - 9 February 2025

Commemoration of the Fifteen [15’ler Hatırası] on the eve of Stalin's Great Terror - 3 February 2025

A birthday celebrated at Smolny, the headquarters of the October Revolution - 16 January 2025

Fear of assassination and childhood innocence - 29 December 2024

Exile in Büyükada (Büyükada’da Sürgün) - 26 December 2024