Originally this was going to come out on November 7th, 2017 - but everything worked against me, and then May 5th, 2018 was the Bicentennial of the birth of Karl Marx (1818-1883), which meant that the first May Day (1st of May) in Bolshevik Russia had the halo of doing it near the Centennial, but by that point the issue of the day was dealing with the new Russian Civil War (1918-1921 or 1922) and trying to make War Communism work (it didn't). This post is a curated collection of links on the subject of the October Revolution as the anniversary came up.
As seen from the Left
Marxists.org in association with Jacobin magazine created a Centennial page of links to essays on the subject in Jacobin magazine, alongside their regular coverage of the Revolution in the Soviet history section of their huge website. The World Socialist Web Site did an entire lecture series with David North (separate videos available on YouTube); wsws.org is Trotskyist. The Baffler published Siddharta Deb's review of China Miéville's October. Miéville himself was interviewed by the Chapo Trap House crew
in May, 2017. The Russian Reader (written by an anonymous St. Petersburger, "hecksinductionhour") wrote about how the Revolution was being covered by the Australian ABC Radio National. The site continually mentioned that Putin's government planned nothing for the Russian Revolution, linking to this Guardian op-ed about how the Russian government was planning to avoid the Centennial at all costs, a) because it is a far-Right government, and b) the people running it are graft masters.
[post under construction.]
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