Marxists Internet Archive: Archive updates


MIA Updates


For the Year 2002

 

June—July, 2002

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30 July, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added The Cominern and the GPU. This was Trotsky’s last article before his assination in 1940. From Fourth International magazine
[Thanks to David Walters

 

29 July, 2002: Added to the Tony Cliff Archive:

The theory of bureaucratic collectivism—A critique (1948)
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]

 

27 July, 2002: A new Marxist Writer has been added to the MIA! We are happy to announce the opening of the Carlos Marighella Internet Archive , a Brazillian revolutionary who led the National Liberation Action (ALN). His famous Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla, has been uploaded.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins & Eri Yaynlar]

 

26 July, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added The Lessons of the Paris Commune. [1921]
[Thanks to David Walters

 

27 June, 2002: Added to the new Tony Cliff Internet Archive:

British Policy in Palestine (1938),
The Jewish-Arab Conflict (1938),
Class Politics in Palestine (1939),
The Middle East at the Crossroads (1945),
Conflict in India (1947),
All that glitters is not gold (1947),
On the Class Nature of the “People’s Democracies” (1950),
State Capitalism in Russia (1955),
Economic roots of reformism (1957),
Deflected Permanent Revolution (1963),
Marxism and the collectivisation of agriculture (1964-65),
On Perspectives (1969),
Introduction to “Whither China?” (1969),
1972 - A great year for the workers (1973),
Roots of Israel's violence (1982),
In the balance (1995),
Conflict in India (1947),
Labour’s crisis and the revolutionary alternative (1996),
Change is going to come: but how? (1997),
The Jews, Israel and the Holocaust (1998),
The test of time (1998) and Revolution and counter-revolution – lessons for Indonesia (1998)
[Thanks to Rolf Vorhaug, Dylan Stillwood, Rick Kuhn, Einde O’Callaghan, the Marxism Page, REDS – Die Roten and the International Socialism, Socialist Review and Socialist Worker archives]

 

26 July, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added The Tasks of Young Workers. This is Trotsky’s report to the Russian Young Communist League in 1922.
[Thanks to David Walters and Index Books]

 

26 July, 2002: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added 29 new documents from Volume 30 of the Lenin Collected Works:

Tasks of the Soviet Women’s Movement
Interview with the Manchester Guardian NOT FOUND IN THE COLLECTED WORKS!
Speech to Students of the Sverdlov University Leaving for the Front
Soviet Power and the Status of Women
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Economics and Politics In the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Greetings to the Workers of Petrograd
Two Years of Soviet Power Two Years of Soviet Rule Speech at a Joint Session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet of Workers’ and Red army Deputies, the All-Russia Central Council of trade Unions, and Factory Committees, On the Occasion of the Second anniversary of the October Revolution. November 7, 1919
To the Communists of Turkestan
The Fight to Overcome the Fuel Crisis Circular Letter To Party Organisations
Speech Delivered at the First All-Russia Conference On Party Work In the Countryside November 18, 1919
Address to the Second All-Russia Congress of Communist Organisations of the Peoples of the East November 22, 1919
Draft Resolution of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) On Soviet Rule In the Ukraine
Eighth All-Russia Conference of the R.C,P.(B) December 2-4,1919
Speech at the Opening of the Conference December 22
Political Report of the Central Committee. December 23
Concluding Speech On the Political Report of The Central Committee. December 24
Draft Resolution On foreign Policy
Speech Summing Up the Debate on Soviet Power in the Ukraine. December 3
Speech Delivered at the First Congress of Agricultural Communes and Agricultural Artels. December 4, 1919
Seventh All-Russia Congress of Soviets. December 5-9, 1919
1. Report of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars.
. December 5-9. 1919
2. Concluding Speech On the Report of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars. December 5
3. Speech In the Organisation Section. December 8.
4. Speech Delivered On the Closing of the Congress. December 9
The Constituent Assembly Elections and The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
To the Younger Generation
Speech at a Meeting In Presnya District On the anniversary of the December Uprising, 1905. December 19, 1919
Report On Subbotniks Delivered to a Moscow City Conference of the R.C.P.(B.). December 20, 1919
Letter to the Workers and Peasants of the Ukraine apropos of the Victories Over Denikin
Stop Spoiling the Russian Language. Some thoughts at Leisure, i.e., While Listening to Speeches at Meetings
To the Bureau of the Women’s Congress in Petrograd Gubernia
Remarks On and addenda to “Drafts for Rules for the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection”
Speech Delivered at a Non-Party Conference of Workers and Red army Men of Presnya District. Moscow. January 24, 1920. Newspaper Report
Draft Decisions and Directives On Co-Operatives
Speech Delivered at the Third All-Russia Congress of Economic Councils. January 27, 1920. Newspaper Report
To Members of the Council of Defence
Report On the Work of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars Delivered at the First Session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, Seventh Convocation. February 2, 1920
[Thanks to David Walters & Robert Cymbala]

 

25 July, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added two new works from transciptions made from New International the journal of the US Section of the International Communist League, the Communist League of America.

The Opposition and the Wrangel Affair—1927 [A defense of the Opposition against Stalin’s frame-up of the Opposition and signed by G. Zinoviev and I. Smilga]
On Max Eastman—1928 [A ringing defense of Eastman for releasing for the first time the full text of Lenin’s Last Testament.
[Thanks to David Walters]

 

24 July, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added two new works from year 1917 and transcribed from American revolutionary Communist magazine Class Struggle:

Capitivity
Forward
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]

 

24 July, 2002: After a four day interlude involving crashing hard drives, our main server is back on-line.

18 July, 2002: The Selected Works of Marx and Engels: now has the complete listing of the Three Volume Progress Publishers Selected Works, thanks to the addition of 14 new works:

Letter from Marx to Ludwig Kugelmann, February 23, 1865
Letter from Marx to Ludwig Kugelmann. October 9, 1866
The General Council of the International to the Russian Section in Geneva, Marx 1870.
Resolutions of the Meeting held to Celebrate the Anniversary of the Paris Commune. (M)
On Social Relations in Russia, Engels 1874
Letter from Engels to W. Blos, November 10, 1877
Old Preface to [Anti]-Dühring. On Dialectics. (E)
Marx and Engels to A. Bebel, W. Liebknecht, W. Bracke and Others (“Circular Letter”). Extract III. The Manifesto of the Three Zurichers
First Draft of the Reply to Vera Zasulich’s Letter. (M)
Marx and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-1849), (E)
The Role of Force in History. (E)
Letter from Engels to Karl Kautsky, February 23, 1891.
A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Programme of 1891, Engels June 1891.
Marx. Enegls 892
Preface to Condition of the Working Class in England. Engels 1892
The Future Italian Revolution and the Socialist Party. Engels 1894
Afterword to the Work. “On Social Relations in Russia”. Engels 1894

Almost all of these works are of interest, naturally. The material on Russia is actually very interesting, written decades before the Russian Revolution it stands up well today; "On Dialectics" is a classic which it is difficult to understand how we avoided archiving till now; "Role of Force" is an unfinished draft but of great interest; the letters to Kugelmann, well worth the read, ...

In addition, four new subject indexes have been added to the Marx-Engels Subject Archive: Free Trade, Poland, Russia and Pre-Capitalist Social Formations.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

 

18 July, 2002: Added to the Marx-Engels Internet Archive is Engels' pamphlet, The Campaign for the German Imperial Constitution. This was a originally published as a series of articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung which gave a class analysis of the 1849 uprising in South Germany in support of the provisional government. Engels took part in several battles of the campaign as a soldier under the command of August Willich.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]

 

17 July, 2002: Added to the new German-language Archiv Karl Radek:

Die Entwicklung des Sozialismus von der Utopie zur Wissenschaft (1918) (The development of socialism from utopia to science)
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]

 

17 July, 2002: Added to the new German-language Archiv August Thalheimer:

1923: Eine verpaßte Revolution? (1931) (1923: A missed revolution?)
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]

 

16 July, 2002: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added the first 16 documents of Volume 30 of Lenin’s Collected Works:

Speech at a Non-Party Conference of the Workers and Men of the Red army of Basmanny, Lefortovo alexeyevskoye and Sokolniki Districts. September 3, 1919 .
How the Bourgeoisie Utilises Renegades
To the American Workers
The Tasks of the Working Women’s Movement In the Soviet Republic. Speech Delivered at the Fourth Moscow City Conference of Non-Party Working Women. September 23, 1919
The Example of the Petrograd Workers
Answers to Questions Put By a Chicago Daily News Correspondent
Greetings to Italian, French and German Communists
The Workers’ State and Party Week
Speech to Mobilised Worker Communists Delivered From the Balcony of Moscow Soviet of Workers’ and Red army Deputies. October 16, 1919. Newspaper Report
To the Workers and Red army Men of Petrograd
Results of Party Week In Moscow and Our tasks
Speech to Students of the Sverdlov University Leaving for the Front. October 24, 1919
To Comrade Loriot and all the French Friends Who adhered to the 3rd International
Letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany Regarding the Split. To Comrades Paul Levi, Clara Zetkin, Eberlein and the Other Members of the C.C. of the Communist Party of Germany .
To the Communist Comrades Who Belonged to the United Communist Party of Germany and Have Now formed a New Party
To Comrade Serrati and to all Italian Communists
[Thanks to David Walters & Robert Cymbala]

 

16 July, 2002: Added to the German-language Archiv Wilhelm Liebknecht:

Zur Wehrfrage (1868) (On the question of defence), Die Pariser Kommune hat das Recht zur Verteidigung (1871) (The Paris Commune has the right to defend itself), Die Stellung der Parteien zur Kolonialpolitik (185) (The position of teh parties on colonial policy), and Dem Militarismus keinen Mann und keinen Groschen (1915) (Not one man and not one penny for militarism)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

 

15 July, 2002: Just launched: The Red Army History section. This will section will collect articles, documents and histories of the Russian Red Army in it’s most formative years. Starting out is German Communist Peter Wollenberg’s detailed history of the Red Army from it's start through the murder of it’ leadership during the 1930’s purge trials. Included with this book is a deatiled Chronology of the Civil War. Also in this section on the Red Army are links to 3 of the completed volumes of Trotsky’s government issued Military Wrtings: How the Revolution Armed.
[Thanks to David Walters and Index Books for allowing us to use both works mentioned above]

 

15 July, 2002: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive is proud to announce the addition of the final 49 documents to complete Volume 25 of Lenin’s Collected Works. This means that their are now 11 full and completed volume from this collection. The 49 documents added are:

Rumours Agitating The Population
A Riddle
Draft Statement By The C.C. R.S.D.L.P.(B) And The Bureau Of The
Bolshevik Group To The All-Russia Congress Of Soviets Regarding The
Ban On The Demonstration
Speech On The Cancellation Of The Demonstration, Delivered At A
Meeting Of The Petrograd Committee Of The R.S.D.L.P.(B), .
(24), 1917
The Turning-Point
Letter To The Editor
The Foreign Policy Of The Russian Revolution
The Ukraine
The Class Origins Of Present-Day And "Future" Cavaignacs
How To Fight Counter-Revolution
The Ukraine And The Defeat Of The Ruling Parties Of Russia
Prosecute Rodzyanko And Junkovsky For Concealing An Agent Provocateur
Strange Misquotations
Ruling And Responsible Parties
Another Commission
The Eighteenth Of June
The Revolution, The Offensive, And Our Party
In What Way Do You Socialist-Revolutionary And Menshevik Gentlemen
Differ From Plekhanov?
How Rodzyanko Is Trying To Justify Himself
To What State Have The Socialist-Revolutionaries And The Mensheviks
Brought The Revolution?
Can "Jacobinism" Frighten The Working Class?
The Need For An Agricultural Labourers' Union In Russia
A Disorderly Revolution
A Class Shift
Miracles Of Revolutionary Energy
Phrases And Facts
How The Capitalists Conceal Their Profits. Concerning the Issue of
Control
Crisis Is Approaching, Dislocation Is Increasing
Just How Is It To Be Done?
How And Why The Peasants Were Deceived
Who Is Responsible?
What Could The Cadets Have Counted On When They Withdrew From The
Cabinet?
Where Is State Power And Where Is Counter-revolution?
Foul Slander By Ultra-Reactionary Newspapers And Alexinsky
Slander And Facts
Close To The Truth
A New Dreyfus Case?
Appeal Of The Executive Commission Of The Petrograd Committee Of The R.S.D.L.P.(B.).
Dreyfusiad
In Refutation Of Sinister Rumours
The Question Of The Bolshevik Leaders Appearing In Court
The Political Situation (Four Theses)
Letter To The Editors Of Novaya Zhizn
Letter To The Editors Of Proletarskoye Dyelo
On Slogans
Our Thanks To Prince G. Y. Lvov
Constitutional Illusions
An Answer
The Beginning Of Bonapartism
[Thanks to Robert Cymbala and David Walters]

 

12 July, 2002: Added to the German language Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:

Marokko (1911) (Morocco), Kleinbürgerliche oder proletarische Weltpolitik? (1911) (Petty bourgeois or proletarian international policy), Hundepolitik (1916) (Rotten politics), Was machen die Führer? (1919) (What are the leaders doing?)
[Thanks to Oliver Fleig and Sozialistische Klassiker]

 

12 July, 2002: New documents added to the Marx-Engels Internet Archive from 1849-50:

11 letters from Engels to The Democratic Review

 

10 July, 2002: Recently added to the Hebrew langauge Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:

How Stalin Defeated the Opposition? (Nov. 12, 1935)
[Thanks to Haggai]

 

10 July, 2002: The Sounds of the Soviet Union has added the Russian lyrics to the Latvian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, and Lithuanian National Anthems.
[Thanks to Dimitri and Brian Baggins]

 

9 July, 2002: Added to the German-language History Archive:

The new Archiv der österreichischen Sozialdemokratie (Archive of Austrian Social Democracy) with the document Das Linzer Programm (1926) (The Linz Programme)
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]

 

9 July, 2002: New in the Women and Marxism: fiction and poetry section are two collections of poems by Lola Ridge, activist for immigrants and the working-class,

The Ghetto and other poems, 1919,
Sunup and other poems, 1920.
[Thanks to Project Gutenburg, Catherine Daly and Sally Ryan]

 

9 July, 2002: Two new works have been added to the Karl Kautsky Internet Archive:

The Economic Doctrines of Karl Marx , 1887
Frederick Engels: His Life, His Work and His Writings, 1899
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and Sally Ryan]

 

8 July, 2002: Recently added to the Hebrew language Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:

How Stalin Defeated the Opposition? (Nov. 12, 1935)
[Thanks to Haggai]

 

5 July, 2002: Added to the new German-language Archiv Julius Martow:

Marx und der Staat (1925) (Marx and the State)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

 

3 July, 2002: Three new works have been added to the Karl Kautsky Internet Archive:

Terrorism and Communism , 1919
The Moscow Trial and the Bolsheviki, 1922
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany, 1924
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and Sally Ryan]

 

2 July, 2002: Added to the Greman-language Archiv Nikolai Bucharin:

Anarchismus und wissenschaftlicher Kommunismus (1918) (Anarchism & scientific communism),
Das Neue in der russischen Revolution (1920) (The new element in the Russian Revolution),
Die Partei der Arbeiterklasse (1921) (The party of the working class)
Die eiserne Kohorte der Revolution (1922) (The iron cohort of the revolution)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

30 June, 2002: Added to Psychology and Marxism:

1) Lev Vygotsky, Crisis in Pychology Completed
Lev Vygotsky, Tool and Symbol in Child Development
Lev Vygotsky, Interaction betweeen Learning and Development
Lev Vygotsky, Photo Archive

2) Lucien Seve, To Begin with the End
The Object of the Psychology of Personality, Chapter 3, of Man in Marxist Theory.

29 June, 2002: Added to the Marx-Engels Correspondence:

30 new letters from the period 1860-64, including a number of letters on the writing of Marx's Political Economy, the exchange of letters concerning the death of Engels' mistress Mary Burns and other events.

A new Subject Index Letters on Capital has been added to the Marx-Engels Correspondence:

The index links to letters from 1844 to 1873 concerning the writing and publication of Das Kapital. The Archive is not yet complete, with more letters still to be added for the key period 1865-69.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

 

29 June, 2002: Added to the Marx-Engels Correspondence:

30 new letters from the period 1860-64, including a number of letters on the writing of Marx's Political Economy, the exchange of letters concerning the death of Engels' mistress Mary Burns and other events.
A new Subject Index Letters on Capital has been added to the Marx-Engels Correspondence:

The index links to letters from 1844 to 1873 concerning the writing and publication of Das Kapital. The Archive is not yet complete, with more letters still to be added for the key period 1865-69.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

 

28 June, 2002: The Nikolai Bukharin Internet Archive has added The Russian Revolution and Its Significance.
[Thanks to Mathias Bismo]

 

28 June, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added the last 31 documents—speeches—Orders from Trotsky’s How the Revolution Armed: The Military Writings of Leon Trotsky—Year 1920: We have also completed the military chronology for the year 1920. This completes this Volume leaving Volumes 4 and 5 to be completed.

To The Comrade Printers, From The Front
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People.s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the troops of the Northern front, April 20, 1919, No. 89, Vologda
The First of May
The Red Army
Order to the Red Army, August 7, 1919, No. 140, Konotop
The supply apparatus needs refreshh g (To the Revolutionary War Councils)
Firing, or making a noise?
Draft of a letter to Party members in the Revolutionary War Councils of the Armies and fronts and heads of political departments
Order to the Revolutionay War Councils and Political Departments of the Armies and Fronts, October 14, 1919, No. 1692
Concerning two documents (To Revolutionary War Councils of Armies and Fronts)
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the Red Army and the Red Navy, December 17, 1919, No. 183, Moscow
Cossacks, form up in a Soviet column! (In connection with the forthcoming Cossack congress)
What is a good regiment and what is a bad one?
The Sacred Task of the Red Army
Proletarians of all lands, comrade workers!
Labour, the basis of life
Labour and war
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the Red Army and the Red Navy, June 15, 1920, No. 229, Moscow
Interview given to the British correspondent Mr Farbman
Interview given to the American correspondent Comrade Reed
Speech at a parade in honour of the Red commanders, in Red Square, October 2, 1920
Our Task in the Fourth Year
Communication to representatives of the Soviet press, November 29, 1920
Take care of the wounded and sick soldiers!
More concern for the Red soldier
The Day of the Wounded
To the Aid of the Sick and Wounded Red Army man (Letter to the Committee for Aid to the Sick and Wounded Red Army Men)
The working woman and the war
Prepare for Front Week
To women workers (Concerning Front Week)
Chronology of the most important military events
[Thanks to Index Books and David Walters]

 

25 June, 2002: Completed!!!...Volume 29 of V. I. Lenin’ Collected Works after adding the last 14 documents of this volume. This brings to 8 the number of completed volumes of Lenin’s Collected Works.

The Present Situation and the Immediate Tasks of Soviet Power Report Delivered to a Joint Meeting of the all-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet of Workers. and Red army Deputies, the all-Russia Council of Trade Unions and Representatives of Moscow Factory Committees. July 4, 1919
The State: a Lecture Delivered at the Sverdlov University. July 11, 1919
The Domestic and Foreign Situation of the Republic. Report Delivered to the Moscow Conference of the R,C.P.(B.) July 12, 1919. Newspaper Report
The Tasks of the Third International. Ramsoy Mac Donald on the Third International
Speech on the Domestic and Foreign Situation Delivered to a Red army Conference Held in Khodynseoye Camp. July 15, 1919. Brief Newspaper Report
Answers to an American Journalist.s Questions
The Food and War Situation. Speech at a Moscow Conference of Factory Committees, Trade Unions and Representatives of the Moscow Central Workers. Co-Operative. July 30, 1919
Speech at the First all-Russia Congress of Workers in Education and Socialist Culture July 81, 1919
In the Servants’ Quarters
Speech at a Non-Party Conference of Workers and Men Of the Red Army August 6, 1919. Newspaper Report
To Comrades Serhati and Lazzari
Letter to the Workers and Peasants Apropos of the Victory Over Kolchak
Letter to Sylvia Panichurst
Freedom to Trade In Grain, the Basic Conditions for Victory
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]

 

25 June, 2002: Added to the German language Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:

Die weltpolitische Lage (1913) (The global political situation), Die Politik der sozialdemokratischen Minderheit (1916) (the politics of the Social Democratic minority), Die Lehre des 24. März (1916) (The lesson of 24 March) and Versäumte Pflichten (1919) (Neglected duties)
[Thanks to Oliver Fleig and Sozialistische Klassiker]

 

24 June, 2002: The Polish Language Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is proud to present Trotsky’s Vital questions for the German Proletariat. These works are translated for the FIRST TIME from Russian to Polish
[Special thanks to Tadeusz for tranlation from Russian and Wojciech Figiel for markup]

24 June, 2002: The Polish Language Leon Trotsky Internet Archive continues work on Trotsky’s autobiography My Life. by adding following parts:

14. The year 1905 (Rok 1905)
15. Trial, Exile, Escape (Sąd, zesłanie, ucieczka )
16. My Second Foreign Exile: German Socialism (Druga emigracja i socjalizm niemiecki)
17. Preparing for a New Revolution (Przygotowania do nowej rewolucji)
18. The Beginning or The War (Początek wojny)
19. Paris and Zimmerwald (Paryż i Zimmerwald)
20. My Expulsion From France (Wydalenie z Francji)
21. Through Spain (Przez Hiszpanię)
22. New York (W Nowym Jorku)
23. In A Concentration Camp (W obozie koncentracyjnym)
24. In Petrograd (W Piotrogrodzie)
25. Concerning (O oszczercach)
26. From July to October (Od lipca do października )
27. The Deciding Night (Noc, kt.ra rozstrzyga)
28. "Trotskyism" in 1917 (Trockizm w roku 1917)
29. In Power (U władzy)
[Thanks to Cezary Cholewinski and Wojciech Figiel for markup]

 

22 June, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added 15 more documents—speeches—Orders from Trotsky’s How the Revolution Armed: The Military Writings of Leon Trotsky—Year 1920: This collections deals with vrious subjects, including the status of the front in the South and an obituary for Y. M. Sverdlov.

A memorandum for certain newly-fledged Anglophiles
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army and the Red Navy, January 9, 1919, No. 74, Valuiki
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Nikolayev Division, January 27, 1919, Pokrovsk, Saratov Province
To the Cossacks
A letter to the middle peasants, from the People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army, March 2, 1919, No. 81, Moscow
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army and the Red Navy, March 9, 1919, No. 83, Moscow
YA .M. Sverdlov (Obituary)
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the railway workers, March 18, 1919, No. 84, Ruzayevka station
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the peasants, March 18, 1919, No. 85, Ruzayevka station
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army, March 18, 1919, No. 86, Inza station
The Counter-Revolution at its Last Gasp
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army and the Red Navy, April 3, 1919, No. 88, Moscow
Which Government Is The More Stable?
To the Foreign Soldiers In North Russia
A Creeping Revolution
[Thanks to Index Books and David Walters]

 

22 June, 2002: A new subject archive has been established for Alienation: Linking together articles by Marx and others on Alienation.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

 

22 June, 2002: A new “Subject Archive” in the Marx-Engels Archive has been initiated for “Letters to the Editor” of bourgeois papers. See Letters to the Editor. A number of new letters from the 1850s have been added to get the collection started.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

 

22 June, 2002: Added to the list of documents of Marx on the "The Russian Menace" and Panslavism we have added The Story of the Life of Lord Palmerston. Also, with kind permission from the author, we have added a related excerpt from Chapter 7 of Francis Wheen's biography, Karl Marx: A Life, 1999.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]

 

21 June, 2002: Hegel-by-HyperText has included a further work by Hegel - The System of Ethical Life. This work was written in 1802, prior to the Phenomenology, and along with other early works of Hegel, has attracted much interest in recent years. Marxists may be astounded to the see the extent to which fundamental ideas of Marxism are already to be found in this work, and at the same time, the basic principles of identity politics and post-modern thinking are also here in a unique combination.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

 

21 June, 2002: Added to the new German-language Archiv Karl Korsch:

Die sozialistische Formel für die Organisation der Volkswirtschaft (1912) (The socialist formula for the organisation of the national economy), Um die Arbeiterregierung (1923) (Concerning the workers’ government), Der Pariser Kommuneaufstand 1871 – Die Russische Revolution 1926 (1926) (The Paris Commune Uprising 1871 – The Russian Revolution 1926) & marx-russ.htm">Zur Geschichte der marxistischen Ideologie in Rußland (1932) (On the history of Marxist ideology in Russia)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

 

20 June, 2002: Added to the Italian-language Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is the Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution.
[Thanks to Luciano Dondero]

 

20 June, 2002: Added to the German-language Archiv Clara Zetkin:

Für die Befreiung der Frau! (1889) (For the emancipation of women), Proletarische Frauen, seid bereit! (1914) (Proletarian women, be prepared!) and Abschied von der Gleichheit (1917) (Goodbye to Die Gleichheit)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

 

20 June, 2002: Added to the German-language Archiv Evgenij Preobraschensky:

Resolution über die Parteidemokratie (1923) (Resolution on party democracy)
[Thanks to Internationale Sozialisten]

 

20 June, 2002: Added to the German language Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:

Was ist mit Liebknecht? (1916) (What&8217;s happening to Liebknecht?), Liebknecht (1916) , Parteitag der Unabhängigen SP (1918) (The party congress of the Independent SP) and Nationalversammlung oder Räteregierung? (1918)
[Thanks to Oliver Fleig and Sozialistische Klassiker]

 

19 June , 2002: We have added to Volume 29 of V. I. Lenin’ Collected Works 25 new documents:

Theses Of The Central Committee Of The Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) On The Situation On The Eastern Front
Plenary Meeting Of The All-Russia Central Council Of Trade Unions April 11, 1919
Foreword To Henri Guildeaux.s Pamphlet Socialism and Syndicalism in France During The War
Speech Delivered At The First The First Moscow Soviet Commanders. Courses April 15, 1919. Brief Newspaper Report
The Third International And Its Place In History
Speech At A Meeting Of The Railwaymen Of Moscow Junction. April 16, 1919
The Fight Against Kolchak. Speech At A Conference Of Moscow Factory Committees And Trade Unions. April 17, 1919. Newspaper Report
Speech At The First All-Russia Congress Of Communist Students. April 11, 1919
Message Of Greetings To The Bavarian Soviet Republic
Telegram To The Chairman Of The Council Of People.s Commissars Of The Ukraine
Three Speeches Delivered In Red Square. May 1, 1919. Newspaper Report
First All-Russia Congress On Adult Education, May 6-19, 1919
Foreword To The Published Speech Deception Of The People With Slogans Of Freedom And Equality
Telegram To The Council Of People.s Commissars Of The Ukraine
Addendum To The Draft Appeal To German Workers And To Peasants Who Do Not Exploit The Labour Of Others
Telegram To J. V. Stalin. May 20, 1919
Speech At The Universal Military Training Festival May 25, 1919. Brief Newspaper Report
Greetings To The Hungarian Workers
The Heroes Of The Berne International
Telegram To J. V. Stalin. May 29, 1919
Beware Of Spies!
Draft C.C. Directives On Army Unity
Telegram To L. V, Stalin. June 4, 1919
Draft Decision Of The C.C. R.C.P.(B.) On The Pethograd Front
A Great Beginning. Heroism Of The Workers In The Rear.“Communist Subbotniks”
Telegram To J. V. Stalin. June 30, 1919
All Out For The Fight Against Denikin! Letter Of The Central Committee Of The Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)To Party Organisations
[Thanks to Robert Cymbala & David Walters]

 

19 June, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added several PDF versions of Trotsky’s major writings:

1914: War and the International
1924: The Lessons of October
1927: Platform of the Opposition
1928: The Third International After Lenin (A Draft Criticism of the Communist International)
1930: The History of the Russian Revolution [5.4 megbytes big!]
1930: My Life [3 megabytes big!]
1937: The Stalin School of Falsification
1938: The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution
1942: In Defense of Marxism
[Thanks to Chris Edwards and Dimitri Verstraeten]

 

19 June, 2002: The Karl Kautsky Internet Archive has added two pamphlets:

Socialism and Colonial Policy , 1907
Ireland, 1922
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and Athol Books]

 

19 June, 2002: Clara Zetkin's Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's Junius Pamphlet has been added to the Clara Zetkin Internet Archive. Also, the Zetkin Archive has been moved from the Women and Marxism section into the Marxists Writers Archive.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]

 

19 June, 2002: Added to the German language Archiv Leo Trotzki:

Die Fragen von Wendelin Thomas (1937) (The questions of Wendelin Thomas), Die Notwendigkeit einer Streitschrift über Kronstadt (1937) (The necessity of a polemical article on Kronstadt) and Das Zetergeschrei um Kronstadt (1938) (The hullaballoo about Kronstadt)
[Thanks to Internationale Sozialisten]

 

19 June, 2002: Added to the German language Archiv W.I. Lenin:

Anarchismus und Sozialismus (Thesen) (1901) (Anarchism and socialism), Die Differenzen in der europäischen Arbeiterbewegung (1910) (The Differences in the European workers’ movement) and Ursprünglicher Entwurf der Resolution des X. Parteitags der KPR über die syndikalistische und anarchistische Abweichung in unserer Partei (1921) (Original draft of the resolution of the 10th party congress concerning the syndicalist and anarchist deviations in our party)
[Thanks to Internationale Sozialisten]

 

17 June , 2002: The G. Zinoviev Internet Archive has added his 1916 essay What is Imperialism?.
[Thanks to Roland Ferguson and Mike Bessler]

 

16 June , 2002: We have starting transcribing Volume 29 of V. I. Lenin’ Collected Works. We have started with the first 23 documents or about half the volume.

Session Of The Petrograd Soviet. March 12, 1919
Session Of The First Congress Of Farm Labourers Of Petroorad Gubernia. March 13, 1919
Speech Delivered At A Meeting In The People’s House, Petrograd. March 13, 1919. Newspaper Report
The Achievements And Difficulties Of The Soviet Government
Speech In Memory Of Y. M. Sverdlov At A Special Session Of The All-Russia Central Executive Committee. March 18, 1919
Speech Delivered At The Funeral Of Yakov Sverdlov. March 18, 1919. Newspaper Report
Draft Programme Of The R.C.P.(B.)
Eighth Congress Of The R.C.P.(B.). March 18-23, 1919
Wireless Message Of Greeting To The Government Of The Hungarian Soviet Republic. March 22, 1919
Record Of Wireless Message To Béla Run. March 23, 1919
Reply To An Open Letter By A Bourgeois Specialist
On The Candidacy Of H. I. Kalinin For The Post Of Chair Man Of The All-Russia Central Executive Committee. March 30, 1919
Speeches On Gramophone Records:
1. In Memory Of Comrade Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov, Chairman Of The All-Russia Central Executive Committee 4k
2. The Third, Communist International
3 Communication On The Wireless Negotiations With Béla Run
4. An Appeal To The Red Army
5. The Middle Peasants
6. What Is Soviet Power?
7. How The Working People Can Be Saved From The Oppression Of The Landowners And Capitalists For Ever
8. Anti-Jewish Pogroms
Telephone Message To The All-Russia Extraordinary Commission, April 1, 1919
Extraordinary Plenary Meeting Of The Moscow Soviet Of Workers’ And Red Army Deputies April 3, 1919
Letter To The Petroghad Workers On Aid For The Eastern Front
[Thanks to Roberty Cymbala & David Walters]

 

12 July, 2002: Added to the German language Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:

Marokko (1911) (Morocco), Kleinbürgerliche oder proletarische Weltpolitik? (1911) (Petty bourgeois or proletarian international policy), Hundepolitik (1916) (Rotten politics), Was machen die Führer? (1919) (What are the leaders doing?)
[Thanks to Oliver Fleig and Sozialistische Klassiker]

 

12 July, 2002: New documents added to the Marx-Engels Internet Archive from 1849-50:

11 letters from Engels to The Democratic Review, written from France and Germany.
Louis Napoleon and Fould (Marx)
Gottfried Kinkel (Marx and Engels)
The English Ten Hours' Bill (Engels)
On the Slogan of the Abolition of the State and the German "Friends of Anarchy" (Engels)
[Thanks to Andy Blunden and Sally Ryan]

 

11 July, 2002: We have started the reorganization of the Russian language secton of the Marxists Internet Archive. In addition to tightning up of external links to sites in Russia containing the works of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky, we are making arrangements to copy/mirror the Bulletin of the Left Opposition on the newly reorganized site. We are working with individuals and groups in Britain, Poland, Italy, the United States and Russia to make this site the premier Russian langauge Marxist site on the Internet.
[Thanks to Luciano Dondero and David Walters]

 

11 July, 2002: Letters on Capital: has now been expanded with Marx-Engels Correspondence from the period 1864-1868, to include about 130 letters concerning the content, research, writing, printing and promotion of Capital. The letters bring out the “Agony and the Ecstacy” of Marx’s writing of his Magnum Opus as well as discussions about the problems that caused difficulty for Marx, his excitement at breaking through certain problems, the possible application of calculus, Engels’ ideas about making the book more accessible and their efforts to break through the “conspiracy of silence” with which the book was met.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

 

10 July, 2002: Recently added to the Hebrew langauge Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:

How Stalin Defeated the Opposition? (Nov. 12, 1935)
[Thanks to Haggai]

 

10 July, 2002: The Sounds of the Soviet Union has added the Russian lyrics to the Latvian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, and Lithuanian National Anthems.
[Thanks to Dimitri and Brian Baggins]

 

9 June, 2002: The Karl Kautsky Internet Archive has been supplemented with another big addition: Communism in Central Europe in the Time of the Reformation, 1897. This is part of a larger work by Kautsky called Vorlaufer des neueren Sozialismus (Forerunners of Modern Socialism), which was never fully translated to English.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]

 

9 June, 2002: A page listing texts on Marxism and Natural Science has been linked to the Subject Archive. It contains new material by J.D. Bernal, B. Zavadovsky, N.I. Vavilov, a section on Lysenkoism and more. Special thanks to Science & Society editor, David Laibman, for generous permission to reprint material related to genetics and evolutionary biology from their valuable early issues.
[Thanks to Mathias Bismo, Andy Blunden, Sally Ryan, Nate Schmolze]

9 June, 2002: The Polish Language Leon Trotsky Internet Archive continues work on Trotsky’s autobiography My Life by adding following parts:

1. Yanovka (Jan.wka)
2. Our Neighbors and My First School (Sąsiedzi - pierwsza szkoła)
3. Odessa: My Family and My School (Rodzina i szkoła)
4. Books and Early Conflicts (Książki i pierwsze konflikty)
5. Country and Town (Wieś i miasto)
6. The Break (Przełom)
7. My First Revolutionary Organization (Moja pierwsza organizacja rewolucyjna)
8. My First Prisons (Moje pierwsze więzienia)
9. My First Exile (Pierwsze zesłanie)
10. My First Escpape (Pierwsza ucieczka)
11. An Immigrant for the First Time (Pierwsza emigracja)
12. The Party Congress and the Split (Zjazd partii i rozłam)
13. The Return to Russia (Powr.t do Rosji)
[Special thanks to Cezary Cholewinski

 

06 June, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added 21 more documents—speeches—Orders from Trotsky’s How the Revolution Armed: The Military Writings of Leon Trotsky—Year 1920: This collections deals with the new offensive against Wrangel in Ukraine and the South of Russia.

Woe to those who do not carry matters to a finish!
On the front against Wrangel (Report to the Moscow Soviet of Workers’, Peasants’of Red Army Men’s and Cossacks’ Deputies, August, 1920)
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, August 18, 1920, No. 234
We need a Southern frontier
The Last-born
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the 9th Army, August 26, 1920, No. 236, Yekaterinodar
The Kuban has not risen
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the 13th Army and the 2nd Mounted Army, August 30, 1920, No. 239, Aleksandrovsk
A splendid blow
Comrade railwaymen
Wrangel’s landing (Talk with a representative of the Soviet press)
Memorandum of the Red Army man on the Southern front
What is the meaning of Makhno’s coming over to the side of the Soviet power?
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the armies of the Southern front, October 13; 1920, No. 246, Kharkov
Makhno and Wrangel (From the People’s Commissariat for Military Affairs)
Order to the War Department and the People’s Commissariat for transport, October 14, 1920, No. 247, Kharkov
How is Makhno’s troop organised?
The Southern front and a winter campaign
Let this be the last!
Don’t let them get away!
[Thanks to Index Books and David Walters]

6 June, 2002: The Polish Language Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added Phrases and reality from October 1938
[Thanks to Tadeusz]

 

05 June, 2002: Added to the Archiv Victor Serge:

The collection Der neue russische Imperialismus (1946) (The New Russian Imperialism) containing the articles, Die gegenwärtige Realität (1946) (The Present Reality), Sozialismus oder Totalitarismus? (1945) (Socialism of Totalšitarianism?), Der stalinistische Imperialismus (1944) (Stalinist Imperialism), Die Russische Revolution und der Iran (1946) (The Russian Revolution and Iran), Die Bedeutung der Mongolei (1945) (The Significance of Mongolia), Die Alternative: Russische Demokratie (1946) (The Alternative: Russian Democracy) and Die demokratischen Kräfte in der UdSSR (1946) (The Forces for Democracy in the USSR)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

 

03 June, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added 24 more documents—speeches—Orders from Trotsky’s How the Revolution Armed: The Military Writings of Leon Trotsky—Year 1920: This collections deals with the offensive against the Polish Army in the summer of 1920 to the Poles’ counter-offensive and Red Army’s fierce restistance, concluding with the Peace Accord with Poland in the fall of 1920. Uploaded, additionally, are various original Soviet maps [map 1,
map 2, etc.] of the Red Army campaigns during 1920 that are included in this Volume.

For The Soviet Ukraine!
In A State Of Intoxication
That Which Is Soviet And That Which Is Of The Polish Gentry
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Transport, May 15, 1920, No. 220, Mogilev
About Bonar Law’s Speech
Postal Telegram No. 2886-a
Postal Telegram No. 2886-b
Speech At A Meeting In The Murom Railway Workshops
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, June 30, 1920, No. 230, Moscow
A Necessary Correction
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the forces of the Western and South-Western fronts , July 17, 1920, No. 231, Moscow
To The Workers, Peasants And All Honourable Citizens Of Soviet Russia And The Soviet Ukraine
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, July 31, 1920, No. 232, Moscow
Theses - On the military-political campaign in connection with the conclusion of peace with Poland
Order - By the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the Red forces fighting against White-Guard Poland, August 14, 1920, No. 233, Moscow
A Refutation
Order - By the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the forces of the Western front, September 3, 1920, No. 239, Moscow
Order - By the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the forces of the Western front September 3, 1920, No. 240, Moscow
Is A Second Lesson Needed?
Order - By the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the Western Front and the zone adjoining the front, September 9, 1920, No.241, Minsk
We Are Stronger Than We Were
The Polish Gentry Do Not Want Peace
Order - By the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the Red Army and the Red Navy, September 24, 1920, No. 242, Moscow
Peace With Poland Has Been Achieved!
[Thanks to Index Books and David Walters]

 

02 June, 2002: The Karl Kautsky Internet Archive is very pleased to have added Kautsky’s book, Thomas More and his Utopia.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]

02 June, 2002: We have added a reference archive for the works of plant breeder, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855-1935). Not intended to be an exhaustive collection of his theoretical works, but a selection provided in order to supply some background regarding their influence in Soviet biology.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]

 

2 Jume, 2002: The History of Afghanistan page has been revised, and contains a new Timeline of Afghanistan History (1919-1996) . This timeline presently focuses on emir Amanollah’s reign (1919-1929), but also contains an overview of events from 1929 to 1996.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]

 

2 June, 2002: Added to the new German langauge Archiv Victor Serge:

Hat die UdSSR ein sozialistisches Regime? (1947) (Does teh USSR have a socialist regime?)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

 

01 June, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added 7 more documents from Trotsky’s How the Revolution Armed: The Military Writings of Leon Trotsky—Year 1920: The start of the war with Poland...

The Polish Front: On The Occasion Of The Creation Of A Special Advisory Board Under The Commander-In-Chief
Order By the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the forces of the Western front, May 8, 1920, No. 210, Smolensk
Kiev Is In The Hands Of The Polish Gentry!
Order By the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the commissars and commanders of the Western front, May 9, 1920, No. 213
What Do They Want?
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the 16th Army, May 10, 1920, No.214
Order By the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Transport to the Province of Gomel. May, 10, 1920, No.215, Gomel
[Thanks to Index Books and David Walters]