Introduction: Revolutions: a twenty-first-century perspective

Radhika Desai and Henry Heller

1. The Russian Revolution at 100: the Soviet experience in the mirror of permanent counterrevolution

Kees van der Pijl

2. Colours of a revolution. Post-communist society, global capitalism and the Ukraine crisis

Ruslan Dzarasov and Victoria Gritsenko

3. Building socialism: from ‘scientific’ to ‘active’ Marxism

David Lane

4. Culture and revolution: Bakhtin, Mayakovsky and Lenin (disalienation as [social] creativity)

Aleksandr Buzgalin and Lyudmila Bulavka-Buzgalina

5. The Chinese Revolution and the Communist International

Enfu Cheng and Jun Yang

6. Marx’s critical political economy, ‘Marxist economics’ and actually occurring revolutions against capitalism

Radhika Desai

7. Continuity and change in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

Julia Buxton

8. A political economy for social movements and revolution: popular media access, power and cultural hegemony

Lee Artz

9. Bush/revolution: theses on the challenges that gatherers and hunters pose to dominant structures

Peter Kulchyski

10. The communitarian revolutionary subject: new forms of social transformation

David Barkin and Alejandra Sanchez

11. Hegel, Haiti and revolution: the post-colonial moment

Henry Heller