Schlagwort: Perestroika
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Lynn Walsh: Trotzki rehabilitieren
[eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Militant International Review, Nr. 44, Sommer 1990] Die offene Neubewertung Trotzkis in der UdSSR, argumentiert Lynn Walsh, ist der Schlüssel zum Verständnis des Aufstiegs des Stalinismus – und zur Formulierung eines Programms, das der Arbeiter*innenklasse einen Ausweg aus der bürokratischen Sackgasse bieten kann. „Die Wiederherstellung der historischen und juristischen…
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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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Lynn Walsh: Russian leaders admit frame-ups
[Militant No. 884, 19 February 1988, p. 6] One of the most famous ‘non-persons’ of the Russian revolution has been officially readmitted to the pages of soviet history. By Lynn Walsh Nikolai Bukharin, prominent Bolshevik leader and friend of Lenin, was not a traitor, spy, or fascist agent. Like twenty other defendants, he was the…
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Lynn Walsh: Kehren Polen und Ungarn zum Kapitalismus zurück?
[eigene Übersetzung nach Militant International Review, No 42, Winter 1990, S. 16-27] Lynn Walsh geht der Frage nach, ob es möglich oder sogar wahrscheinlich ist, dass Polen und Ungarn in die Umlaufbahn des Kapitalismus zurückkehren könnten. Es gibt viele bedingte Faktoren. Die politische Revolution hat begonnen. Die erderschütternde Bewegung der Bergarbeiter*innen von Workuta, Sibirien und…
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Lynn Walsh: Die Wirtschaft der Perestroika
[Militant International Review, Nr 37, Sommer 1988, S. 19-21] Abel Aganbegjan ist Gorbatschows Haupt-Wirtschaftsberater. Die jüngste Veröffentlichung seines Buches „The Challenge: Economics of Perestroika“ (Hutchinson £8.95) im Westen ist ein Hinweis auf die tiefe Krise, in der sich die herrschende Bürokratie der Sowjetunion befindet. Bis vor kurzem haben die offiziellen sowjetischen Ökonomen geleugnet, dass es…
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Lynn Walsh: The economics of Perestroika
[Militant International Review, No 37, Summer 1988, p. 19-21] Abel Aganbegyan is Gorbachev’s chief economic advisor. The recent publication in the West of his book, The Challenge: Economics of Perestroika (Hutchinson £8.95), is itself an indication of the profound crisis now facing the ruling bureaucracy of the Soviet Union. Until recently official Soviet economists denied…
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Militant: Introduction (to the pamphlet “Stalinism in Crisis“)
[pamphlet “Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 1] Since Gorbachev’s first statements about glasnost in 1986, and his speech at the February 1987 Communist Party congress, the ruling bureaucracy in the Soviet Union has been in turmoil. More significantly, the divisions and splits at the top have been the signal for the biggest movement of the working…