For the Year 2000
May-July, 2000
26 July, 2000:
The Soviet History Archive has opened a Soviet Statistical Archive . This section includes data on a variety of statistics from population growth to the average working day in certain industries to industrial output to consumer consumption. The statistics cover the time of around 1940-1989.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
24 July, 2000:
A new subject section has been added to the archive on Psychology and Marxism , adding new marxists authors to the writers archive: A.N Leontev, A.R Luria, & D.B Elkonin. This subject section aims to explore the relationship between Marxism and Psychology, conveyed through marxist authors whose writing on or about psychology was influenced by Marxism and dialectical materialism, including a selection of reference psychologists helpful in understanding marxists conceptions.
[Thanks to Nate Schmolze]
Notice: Our hard drive failed at approximately July 14, 10:30 PM G. M. T. , one day before we had planned on downloading the archive and beginning production on the CD version of the site. We were able to recover the material of our site on July 24, 4:00 AM G.M.T . If you sent a mail to any of us during this time, it is possible that we never received that mail, please send it again. Also, in the event that future problems occur, be sure you are familiar with our Mirrors. We plan to begin production of the CD at the end of this month.
13 July, 2000:
New works in the Chinese archive: Mao's Report On An Investigation Of The Peasant Movement In
Hunan and Investigation Of
Xunwu, Lenin's 'Left wing's' Infantility and Petty Bourgeoisie Character, Marx's Speech: On The Question of Free Trade.
[Thanks to Weidong Ren]
7 July, 2000:
The Chinese language archive has been added:
Mao's "On
The Correct Handling Of Contradictions Among The People" and
"Talks At The
Yenan Forum On Literature And Art"; Lenin's "Imperialism,the
Highest Stage of Capitalism(2-1)"."Imperialism,the
Highest Stage of Capitalism(2-2)".
[Thanks to Weidong Ren]
3 July, 2000: Newly-translated Chapter 7, of "The Hungarian Revolution", of "History of the World Crisis," has been added to the J. C. Mariategui Archive. [Thanks to Juan Farajo]
27 June, 2000: The first portion of Marx's Theories of Surplus Value has been transcribed.[Thanks to Julio Huato]
24 June, 2000:
Added to the Trotsky Internet Archive is Trotsky's 1935 essay Rosa Luxemburg and the Fourth International. [Thanks to Dario Romeo]
Two new writers archives have been started on the MIA's Spanish Language Section: The Archivo Anatoli Lunacharsky and the Archivo Nikolai Bukharin [Thanks to Juan Fajardo]
The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line(ETOL) has started a major reorganization and updating of it's contents, including the addition of a new writers archive page. Additionally, the ETOL now contains an official mirror of the Revolutionary History magazine web site. [Thanks to Luciano Dondero and Sally Ryan]
Joseph Stalin's polemic The October Revolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists has been added to the Stalin Reference Archive [Thanks to Charles Farrell]
21 June, 2000:
We are pleased to announce that a Chinese language archive has been added to the Marxists Internet Archive. In addition we are happy to welcome the director of this archive: Weidong Ren.
[Thanks to Weidong Ren]
The Lenin Assembly Line Project has added to the Lenin Internet Archive Lenin's 1904 polemic One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. [Thanks to Charles Farrell and David Walters]
12-18 June, 2000:
In the last stages of completing full integration of the Hegel by Hypertext site, we have added several authors to the Marxist writers library: Dunayevskaya, Ilyenkov, CLR James, Lukacs, Meszáros, Mikhailov, Novack, Pilling, and Vygotsky.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
In addition, several reference writers have been added: Ludwig Feuerbach ,
Herbert Marcuse,
Jean-Paul Sartre,
Louis Althusser,
Lao Tzu, and
Sun-Tzu.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden and Brian Baggins]
17 June, 2000:
The Lenin Assembly Line Project has completed Volume 22 of V.I. Lenin's Collected Works for the Lenin Internet Archive. [Thanks to Charles Farrell and David Walters]
An Siete preguntas al Director, an interwview with Palmiro Togliatti has been added to the Spanish-language archive of his works. [Thanks to Izquierda Unida of Seville, Spain]. We have also added the biographical article Federico Engels to the Archivo V. I. Lenin.
16 June, 2000: The German language version of Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution has been added to the German language Trotsky Internet Archive. [Thanks Jorn Andersen and Mike Galvin]
13 June, 2000:
Mao Tse-tung's On Guerrilla Warfare has been uploaded. Written by Mao in 1937, when Japanese imperialists occupied all of China, this book served as an instruction manual for guerrilla fighting, written based on more than a decade of personal experience by Mao. Based on the basic strategy and tactics of warfare as described by Sun-tzu, Mao stresses the importance of guerrilla warfare tactics in a revolutionary war, emphasizing that they must be combined in conjunction with conventional warfare tactics.
[Thanks to the Maoist Documentation Project & Brian Baggins]
2 June, 2000: A subject index On Democracy and Dictatorship has been created for the Lenin Internet Archive, along with the transcription of the work The Democratic Tasks of the Revolutionary Proletariat.[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
31 May, 2000: A small image archive has been created for the Mariategui Archive. [Thanks to Juan Fajardo]
29 May, 2000: Karl Marx's series of articles On the Freedom of Press have been reformatted and footnotes have been added.[Thanks to Brian Baggins and Sally Ryan]
28 May, 2000: The Spanish Language Section has added two articles from the Aug. 1931 issue of the journal of the Left Opposition in Spain into the Archivo León Trotsky, Carta al Buró Político del PC de Rusia and Acerca de la plataforma del Bloque Obrero y Campesino de Cataluña [Thanks to Claudio Nascimento and Juan Fajardo], as well as Marxismo y revisionismo which has been added to the Archivo Lenin [Thanks to Urria].
Also, we have started a Spanish-language Archivo José Carlos Mariátegui with the following texts [Thanks to Juan Fajardo]:
Apuntes
autobiográficos
Prólogo a
Tempestad en los Andes
El
1° de Mayo y el Frente Unico
Antecedentes y
desarrollo de la acción clasista
26 May, 2000: A Student's Section has been created. The section includes introductory readings for students learning Marxism. Various subject areas are included, with diverse opinions presented by authors throughout our Marxist writers library.[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
24 May, 2000: A biographical account of Che Guevara's efforts and accomplishments while minister of the economy in Cuba has been transcribed to the Che Guevara Internet archive.[Thanks to Bill Stodden]
23 May, 2000: Into the Kautsky Internet Archive, an essay, Trade Unions and Socialism. This article was written in 1901 when Kaustky was the German foreign correspondent for the International Socialist Review. [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
22 May, 2000: Two major works in the Trotsky Internet archive have been converted into PDF format (for printing):[Thanks to Chris Russell]
History of the Russian Revolution:
Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3
The Transitional Program
20 May, 2000: In 1871 the first workers government in history was created: the Paris Commune. Karl Marx, in exile in England, diligently recorded and explained each major event just days after they concluded, for distribution to workers all around the world. These speeches have withstood the test of time and are among some of the best descriptions of the historic Civil War in France . The book has been thoroughly renovated; all HTML revised, put into a new structure, and over 100 footnotes of historical references have been added.[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
The History of the Paris Commune has been added to our Marxist History Archive ; with documents describing the Commune and the events leading up to and coming after, a timeline of the Civil War, and an extensive photo gallery. [Thanks to Brian Baggins]
17 May, 2000: An interpretive biography written by Michael Munk of John Reed's life in Portland, Oregon has been transcribed. [Thanks to Michael Munk]
16 May, 2000: All of Trotsky's "Geschichte der russischen Revolution" is now available in German. [Thanks to Michael Gavin and Jorn Andersen]
16 May, 2000: The Non-English archive has opened a Turkish section. [Thanks to Jorn Andersen]
14 May, 2000: The Women and Marxism section has added a section for a growing collection of fiction and poetry, 1880-1930. [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
7 May, 2000: Several new works added to Volume 38 of Lenin's Philosophical Notebooks: [Thanks to Marc Szewczyk]
Fr. _berweg. Outline of the History of Philosophy
Fr. Paulsen. Introduction to Philosophy
Note on a Review of The Wonders of Life and The Riddle of the Universe by E. Haeckel
Conspectus of Feuerbach's Book Lectures on the Essence of Religion
Remarks on Books on the Natural Sciences and Philosophy in the Sorbonne Library
5 May, 2000: An image library has been started for the Alexandra Kollontai Internet Archive.
New author pages on Olive Schreiner, Edward Carpenter and Margaret Sanger added into the Women and Marxism section. [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
2 May, 2000:
Three texts into the Kautsky Internet Archive:
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
1892: The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) This program, written with the help of Eduard Bernstein, became a central part of the revisionism debates within the German Social Democrat Party (SPD).
1934: Hitlerism and Social-Democracy
1934: Marxism and Bolshevism—Democracy and Dictatorship
May 1, 2000: Happy May Day! Workers around the world celebrate the first of may each year as a day of international working-class solidarity. For the origins and history of May Day, See the Encyclopedia of Marxism: May Day. See also for more information on May Day events around the world .[off-site link]
For May Day we have added several important documents to the Spanish Language Section:
Into the Archivo Marx/Engels:
Crítica
del Programa de Gotha, including:
Prologo by F. Engels
Carta de C. Marx a Wilhelm Bracke (5 de Mayo de
1875)
Programa del Partido Obrero
Socialdemócrata Alemán ("Programa de Eisenach")
Proyecto de Programa del Partido Obrero
Alemán ("Programa de Gotha") [Thanks to
Juan Fajardo]
El dieciocho brumario de Luis
Bonaparte [Thanks to the Basque Red Net]
To the Archivo León Trotsky:
The complete text of La revolución permanente [Thanks to the Basque Red Net]
Into the Archivo V. I. Lenin:
Tareas de
las Juventudes Comunistas. [Thanks to Juan
Fajardo]
Un gran
exito de la República China [Thanks to
Juan Fajardo]
El
Marxismo y la insurreccion [Thanks to Biblioteca de
Textos Marxistas]
La guerra
de guerrillas [Thanks to Biblioteca de
Textos Marxistas]
La Tercera
Internacional y su lugar en la historia [Thanks
to Biblioteca de
Textos Marxistas]
Marxismo y
revisionismo. [Thanks to Biblioteca de
Textos Marxistas]
Las tareas
del proletariado en la presente revoluci=n ("Tesis de abril") [Thanks to Biblioteca de
Textos Marxistas]
And, to the Archivo Che Guevara:
The months of January and February of 1967 to Diario del Che Guevara en Bolivia [Thanks to Juan Fajardo]