Issue No. 27 | Fall 2017
The First Red Century
The New Communists
It’s 2017. Time to stop worrying about the questions of 1917.
Moscow Globetrotters
Statues of Lenin, once ubiquitous in Communist countries, now cast shadows across the capitalist world.
A Red by Any Other Name
Wondering what to call your newborn?
The Man Who Brought Pizza
Mikhail Gorbachev’s journey from Communist reformer to Pizza Hut salesman.
Straying From the Party Line
My last years in the USSR.
The Soviets Abroad
Throughout its existence, the Soviet Union played the role of both liberator and oppressor.
Red Diaper Babies
In America, school is preparation for “real” life. In the early Soviet Union, school was filled with life.
The Miracle on Ice
Without even an indoor rink, the Soviets changed hockey forever.
The Elvis of East Germany
How a young man from Colorado became the Eastern Bloc’s biggest pop star.
Seventeen Soviet Films
The October Revolution unleashed cinematic brilliance that even decades of political censorship couldn’t extinguish.
Our Road to Power
The twentieth century left socialists plenty of lessons. Will we heed them?
Our Favorite Dupe
Henry Wallace was a brilliant progressive with an open mind. That’s where the trouble began.
Fascism’s Face-Lift
Anti-communist campaigns in Eastern Europe aren’t about building a more democratic society — they’re about rehabilitating the far right.
Yacht Party Men
Not everyone hated shock therapy.
From Red Square to Square One
What’s left of the Left in the post-socialist world?
Choose Your Own Adventure
When your God that fails is Pol Pot.
Become a Jacobin Comrade Today
Political action can’t end with reading a magazine, but resistance needs ideas.
The Few Who Won
How should we understand the October Revolution and its tragic aftermath?