For the Year 1998

May - July 1999

29 July, 1999: Four documents and one pamphlet have been added to the Lenin Internet Archive: [Thanks to David Walters and Brian Baggins]

To the Soldiers and Sailors
The War and the Provisional Government
In the footsteps of Russkaya Volya
A Partnership of Lies
An Important Exposure
Banks and Ministers

20 July, 1999: Capital Volume 2 has been complted. [Thanks to Sally Ryan and Tim Delaney]

19 July, 1999: Four documents and one pamphlet have been added to the Lenin Internet Archive: [Thanks to Brian Baggins and David Walters]

Letters on Tactics
The Tasks of the Proletariat in our Revolution
Political Parties in Russia and the Tasks of the Proletariat
Speech at the meeting of Soldiers of the Izmailovsky Regiment
A Shameless Lie of the Capitalists

11 July, 1999: The Alexandra Kollontai Archive has added excerpts from the document Workers' Opposition. [thanks to the cleaning staff]

9 July, 1999: The Rosa Luxemburg Archive has added the book: The Russian Revolution. [thanks to A. Lehrer]

8 July, 1999: We are pleased to announce the addition of two new members to the MIA Board of Directors:

mihau; Director of the German Che Guevara Archive, and,
Harm Schoonecamp; Director of the Rosa Luxemburg Internet Archive

7 July 1999: The 1908 critique of Leo Tolstoy written by Leon Trotsky entitled Tolstoy, Poet and Rebel has been added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive. [thanks to David Walters]

5 July 1999: Two new texts in the James P. Cannon Internet Archive:
Speech at the First Workers Party Convention and Our Appeal Against Expulsion from the Communist Party . [thanks to David Walters]

3 July, 1999: Marx's A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy has been completed. [thanks to Tim Delaney]

3 July, 1999: Many new letters from Marx and Engels to each other and several others into the Letters Archive. Recipients include Kautsky, Sorge, Zasulich, Lassalle and new collections have been started for Engels to August Bebel, and Marx to Engels.. [thanks to Sally Ryan]

1 July, 1999:We've added nine new chapters from Leon Trotsky's Military Writings, Volume II, 1919. These writings were originally published by the Soviet Government in the 1920s and not translated into English until the 1970s.[Thanks to David Walters]

30 June, 1999: Two documents added to the Rosa Luxemburg Archive: [Thanks to A. Lehrer]

Leninism or Marxism?
Order Prevails in Berlin

28 June, 1999:Addition: a document transcribed from New International for the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive entitled Thermidor and Anti-Semitism. This article was written in 1938 by Leon Trotsky. [thanks to Matt Siegfried]

21 June, 1999: Five articles from The New International, to the Max Shachtman Internet Archive: [thanks to Sally Ryan]

The Problem of the Labor Party (1935)
The Russian Revolution l7 Years After (1934)
Pre-war Perspectives and Post-war Realities: An Analysis of the Politics of the Fourth International (1945)
The Nature of the Stalinist Parties: Their Class Roots, Political Role and Basic Aim (1947)
Reflections on a Decade Past: On the Tenth Anniversary of Our Movement (1950).

21 June, 1999: An addition to The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive, one of Leon Trotsky's earliest published writings, Our Political Tasks. A response to Lenin's What is to be done?[thanks to A. Lehrer]

20 June, 1999: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added Trotsky's 1922 document Between Red and White, a primer on the issues of nationalism and socialist revolution at the end of the Russian Civil War. [thanks to Alphonsos Pangas]

17 June, 1999:The Lenin Assembly Line Project (LALP) proudly announces it's first contribution to the Lenin Internet Archive. The LALP intends to transcribe the entire 45 Volumes of Lenin's Collected Works. We decided to start with Volume 24, April of 1917. We will then alternate between next higher volumes and the first volumes beginning with Volume 1. The first five documents from Volume 24 on the Lenin Internet Archive are: [thanks to Brian Baggins and David Walters]

How we Arrived
Two Worlds
Blancism
The Dual Power
Notes in Defence of the April Theses

16 June, 1999: The Marx/Engels Biography Archive has been reorganised and remarked. [thanks to Brian Baggins]

15 June, 1999: The first portion of the MIA Introduction has been completed -- hitherto containing the history of the archive and the people who have made this archive what it is today. [thanks to Brian Baggins, Sally Ryan, David Walters, and Alphonsos Pangas]

15 June, 1999: Chapter One to Marx's A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy is now online. [thanks to Tim Delaney]

14 June, 1999: Two articles from Socialist Appeal, 1936, have been added to the Max Shachtman Internet Archive: The Moscow Trial, and Nineteen Years of the Russian Revolution. Also a bibliography and brief description of the Shachtman papers (Tamiment Institute) have been added. [thanks to Sally Ryan]

11 June 1999 The Critique of the Gotha Programme has been reformatted, and Engels' foreword has been added. [thanks to Brian Baggins]

11 June 1999 The Soviet History Sound Archive has been updated with the national anthems of all Soviet Republics. [thanks to Brian Baggins]

9 June, 1999: Marx and Engels Articles on the US Civil War have been added to the Marx/Engels Archive [thanks to Tim Delaney and Sally Ryan]

8 June, 1999: More essays from The New International, 1938, to the Max Shachtman Internet Archive: The 4th International Is Launched, Balabanoff's Memoirs (book review), The Socialist Party: A Head Without A Body , The Labor Party: A Debate Between James Burnham, Max Shachtman and Hal Draper [thanks to Sally Ryan]

7 June, 1999: The M/E letters Archive has been updated, with additions on correspondence from Jenny Marx to Karl Marx, a letter by Ruge and Marx, and acouple additions to the Miscellaneous Doucments section. [thanks to Sally Ryan]

6 June, 1999: The Current Projects page has been updated.

4 June, 1999: Lenin Dead, Trotsky's tribute to V.I. Lenin following his death in January of 1924 has been added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive [thanks to Matt Siegfried]

3 June, 1999: The Max Shachtman Internet Archive has added Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg, an essay on organizational differences from The New International, 1938. [thanks to Sally Ryan]

1 June, 1999: Karl Marx's Wage Labour and Capital has been remarked. [thanks to Brian Baggins]

29 May, 1999: Part II of Capital Volume III has been transcribed. [thanks to Tim Delaney]

28 May, 1999: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added The Lessons of Spain: The Last Warning, Trotsky's last major essay of the Spanish Revolution. [thanks to Matt Siegfried]

Additionally this article is our first article in the construction of our new Spanish Revolution Subject Index of the Trotksy Internet Archive. This is our fourth addition to the Subject Indexes, the other three being:

The Rise of German Fascism Subject Index

Leon Trotsky On Britain

Leon Trotsky on China

28 May, 1999: Engels' Principles of Communism has been remarked and editted. [thanks to Brian Baggins]

26 May, 1999: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is a new document: On the South African Theses [thanks to Matt Siegfried]

23 May, 1999: The Bakunin Internet Archive has been created. [thanks to Dana Ward and Brian Baggins]

17 May, 1999: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napolean and Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State have been converted into html 4.0 (css1) format. (Note: All footnotes have not yet been added) [thanks to Brian Baggins]

12 May, 1999: A Volunteer Section has been created. If you have any questions about volunteering, or wish to volunteer, this is the place to start. [thanks to Brian Baggins]

7 May, 1999: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is Platform of the Opposition [thanks to Peter LaVenia]

6 May, 1999: The Rosa Luxemburg Archive has been reformatted. [thanks to Brian Baggins]

3 May, 1999: Karl Marx's Book of Verse has been transcribed, containing a variety of poems written by the young Karl Marx. [thanks to Sally Ryan]

1 May, 1999: The Portraits and Biographies Archive has been completed. This archive hosts bibliographical informaiton on a (small, but growing!) variety of personalities mentioned in Marxists works. Any additional protraits on relevent figures are welcome. Contact Brian. [thanks to Ken Campbell, Alphonsos Pangas, and Brian Baggins]

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