Schlagwort: Gorbachev
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Lynn Walsh: Rehabilitating Trotsky
[Militant International Review, No 44, Summer 1990, p. 6-11] The open re-appraisal of Trotsky in the USSR, argues Lynn Walsh, is the key to understanding the rise of Stalinism – and to formulating a programme which can provide the working class with a way out of the bureaucratic impasse. “Restoring historical and judicial justice is…
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Elizabeth Clarke: Soviet Union in turmoil
[Militant International Review, No. 45, New Year 1991, p. 42-49] The Soviet Union is being torn apart by contradictory processes of revolution and counter-revolution, argues Elizabeth Clarke. Workers‘ patience with the deprivations of the mismanaged planned economy have been exhausted The Soviet Union is being torn apart by contradictory processes of revolution and counter-revolution. The…
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Jen Pickard: Women in the Soviet Union
[Militant International Review, No 37, Autumn 1988, p. 19-23] In his book Perestroika: New Thinking for our Country and the World, Gorbachev claims that women in the Soviet Union have “the same right to work as men, equal pay … every opportunity to get an education, to have a career and to participate in social…
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Peter Taaffe: Russian economy: choked by bureaucracy
(Militant No. 688, 24 February 1984 p. 8-9) The death of Andropov and his replacement by the even greyer and older Chernenko has been the occasion for the hirelings of capital in Fleet Street to predictably point to the deficiencies of the Stalinist regime, its totalitarian character, massive corruption, etc. By this means they seek…
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Jeremy Birch: Bureaucracy or Workers’ Democracy?
[pamphlet „Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 2-5] The western press’ enthusiastically applauded Gorbachev’s performance at the June 1988 special Communist Party conference. They praised his ‘democratic reforms’, his courage and steadfastness. Many workers and young people in Britain are now asking: Will Gorbachev really clear out bureaucratism, will the Russian workers now be able to enjoy…
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Peter Taaffe: Gorbachev’s National Dilemma
[25 March 1988, pamphlet „Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 19-29] The mighty events in Armenia just a few weeks ago have shaken the Stalinist regime represented by Gorbachev to its foundations. Never before, at least in its own ‘backyard’, has the bureaucratic elite which dominates Russian society faced a challenge on such a scale. A mounting…