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Edmund Griffiths
THIRD WORLD FIRST: The Tartar revolutionary who advocated for the colonised nations to lead, seen here with his wife Fatma Erzin in 1919
Features / 22 July 2025
22 July 2025

The Tatar rebel argued that Western workers could be bought off, so instead a ‘colonial international’ must form a dictatorship over Europe and the US, ideas that led to his expulsion from the Bolsheviks and eventual execution, writes EDMUND GRIFFITHS

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures attends a plenary
Opinion / 19 June 2022
19 June 2022
EDMUND GRIFFITHS traces the development of the new Russian nationalism that has burst forth in its attack on Ukraine
Book review: / 16 August 2019
16 August 2019
Reading the book sometimes feels a little like eavesdropping on a series of running arguments from which, regrettably, notable and relevant figures have been disinvited