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This Week in People’s History, May 6–12, 2026

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Official portrait of Russian Czar Nicholas II The Czar Saved His Neck, but Not Forever (1906), Major Demonstrations Need Lots of Planning, but Not Always (1970), If Ending Slavery Was Hard, Why Was Woman Suffrage Even Harder? (1866), A Big Step Down the Slippery Slope in Vietnam (1961)

This Week in People’s History, Jan 22–28

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Drawing of soldiers shooting demonstrators in St. Petersburg The Long, Long, Road to Revolution (1905), ‘Can’t Nobody Lick Us’ (1940), Voter Suppression Meets Its Match (1965), Fluoride’s Safe to Drink, Period (1945), Designing the Trail of Tears (1825)

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Strangely Lenin

Paul Buhle Portside
This may be the funniest book about Lenin ever published, a generalization difficult to prove because there have been thousands of books about Lenin in hundreds of languages.

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The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg: 1897–1905

Sevgi Doğan Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
The first of three volumes of the Complete Works covering Luxemburg’s life and work . Spanning from 1897 to 1905, it contains speeches, articles, and essays on the strikes, protests, and political debates culminating in the 1905 Russian Revolution.
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