Category Archives: USSR

Scholarly scribbles: “Capital: Volume One”

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Mike

I recently decided to undertake a serious and close study of Marx’s Capital (vol. I), using a few additional texts and David Harvey’s acclaimed online course to supplement my reading. Although I already had a few copies of the book … Continue reading →

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Whither “revisionism”?

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Mike

Marxist circles on the Internet are some of the scrappiest neighborhoods in cyberspace. It turns out that lefites, when critiquing one another, are almost as dysfunctional as the kind of keyboard warriors who inhabit the so-called “Internet Wrestling Community,” except … Continue reading →

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Stephan Denisovich on Fatherhood

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Mike

I recently started reading Anton Makarenko’s 1937 A Book for Parents. Makarenko is perhaps best known for his work The Road to Life which was originally published in Russian as The Pedagogical Poem. I read the first volume of The … Continue reading →

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Nikolai Timkov’s “Leningrad in the Days of the Great Patriotic War”

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Mike

I recently acquired an unusual piece of ephemera for my collection of Soviet era documents, art and memorabilia. I purchased the item online from a seller in Russia. It was something of an accidental purchase, as I’d mistakenly thought that … Continue reading →

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