ARTICLES

Hillel Ticktin Why the Transition Failed: Towards a Political Economy of the Post-Soviet Period In Russia

Jenny Harden
Beyond the Dual Burden: Theorising Gender Inequality in Soviet Russia

Bob Arnot
The Rhetoric and Reality of Small Firm Development in Russia

Christopher Arthur
Epitaph for the USSR: A Clock Withou A Spring

Stephen Schwartz
The Spanish Civil War in Historical Context

Martin Glaberman & Seymour Faber
Back to the Future: The Continuing Relevance of Marx

Survey

Yasamin Mather & David Mather
The Islamic Republic and the Iranian Left

Archive

Victor Serge
Preface to the Reissue of -Lenin 1917

Review Article

Bridget Fowler
On Fetishism, Ghosts and State Magic: The Communist Manifesto, Derrida's The Spectres of Marx and Bourdieu's The State Nobility

Steve Fleetwood
The Continuing Relevance of the Communist Manifesto

REVIEWS