Today in History Today is Monday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2022. There are 292 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 14, 1794,
Often referred to as the USSR, the Soviet Union, or more often these days, the former Soviet Union. It was dissolved in 1991 following a relatively peac.
Alongside the Russian workers' attempts to create socialism not as some abstract far-off utopia in a political party program, but through confronting and changing the concrete reality of their everyday life were the activities of socialist parties, supposedly sympathetic to working class aspirations. This pamphlet tells the story of the Russian workers' struggle, in particular the efforts of the factory committees.
In August 1991, the collapse of an attempted coup by hard-liners bent on reversing reforms hastened the breakup of the Soviet Union, which was gone by the end of the year replaced by 15 independent states. In Russia, how far back will Vladimir Putin turn the clock?