Prague Spring – 50 years on
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union. In August 1968 tanks were sent in to crush it. Here are some resources to find out more: Newspaper coverage •New York Times •Guardian •Atlantic -photo essay •Radio Free Europe […]
Karl Marx 200
The British Library has a digital copy of parts of the original Communist Manifesto – only 26 are believed to have survived worldwide! It also provides background information on its publication. The library website also has an image of Marx’s original British Library readers ticket. You can read his classic works, letters and writings free […]
Socialist and Communist Pamphlets Digital Collection
The Socialist and Communist Pamphlets digital collection New in 2017 from the University of Houston, the collection includes 40 socialist, communist, and anarchist pamphlets from a larger collection of radical political pamphlets held by them. Covers 1872-1920s and includes the Russian revolution. See this great example celebrating the first year of the Russian revolution which has […]
Prague Spring Digital Library
New from the collaboration between the University of Texas at Austin, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), and the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library a brilliant new digital library offering free online access to primary source documents. They include include telegrams, memos, cables, and CIA communications addressing the invasion of Czechoslovakia, […]
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels original papers online
Free access to the archives from the website of the International Institute of Social History. The site has a detailed contents list. Items offered in German. For further free resources try the great Marxist Internet Archive which has an encyclopedia of definitions and terms plus libraries of full text writings and articles from classic and […]
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