Russia

No war in Ukraine protest

Special coverage: Understanding Putin's war on Ukraine

Updated and with a new section on the one year anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion.

Since Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February, LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal has sought to carry a range of views from the socialist left to help understand the significance of this event. Particular attention has been paid to the voices of Ukrainian and Russian leftists who are at the forefront of resisting this invasion.

Soldiers on a tank

Is Russia an imperialist power? Part I: Non-hegemonic gestation

By Claudio Katz, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Badges of Putin and Tsar Nicholas

Is Russia an imperialist power? Part IV: Benevolent glances

By Claudio Katz, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Russian students against war graphic

Russia: Students against the war (Part Two)

By Posle

Anti war graphic

Russia: Students against the war (Part One)

By Posle

Russian empire

The conquest of Ukraine and the history of Russian imperialism

By Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski

Russian ‘left’ split over Ukraine War (Plus statement by Opposition current in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation)

By Ilya Budraitkis

Putin's war in Ukraine: The dialectics of victory and defeat

Russia: Learning solidarity together

May 12, 2022 —

Social sources of political polarization in Russia

Against Putin’s War in Ukraine: An interview with Ilya Budraitskis

By

Real peace in Ukraine will only come after change in Russia

Oksana Dutchak interviewed by