national question (Russia)

Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev
Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev: Pioneering Bolshevik theorist of imperialism, national liberation and socialism
Rohini Hensman — Given his prominence as a high-ranking Bolshevik, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev is very little known. This is a pity, because there is much we can learn from his writings as well as his practice even today.
Russian communist party
‘Putin's regime is not subject to evolution’: An interview with Russian socialist Ilya Budraitskis
Ilya Budraitskis explains the left’s vision of decentralized governance and why Russia’s Communist Party must exit together with Putin.
Anti-imperial Marxism: Borderland socialists and the evolution of Bolshevism on national liberation
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Latvian Marxist polemic against class harmony By Eric Blanc May 2, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from International Socialist Review with the author’s permission — Given the importance Marxists place on the fight against racial and national oppression, it is surprising that relatively little attention has been paid to the socialists of imperial Russia’s borderlands. Most of the inhabitants of the tsarist empire were non-Russian (Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Finns, Latvians, Georgians, Muslims, etc.), as were most revolutionaries. Yet academic and activist historiography has distorted our understanding of the socialist movement’s overall development by narrowly focusing on Central Russia.
Liberación nacional y bolchevismo: la aportación de los marxistas de la periferia del Imperio Zarista
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National liberation and Bolshevism re-examined: A view from the borderlands
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Crimea: Be wary of attempts to use rights of Tatars to justify violence and war
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Ukraine: Outside powers exploiting ethnic nationalisms
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