Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: Russia

  • Clare Doyle: Bitter defeat for Russian army

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    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 8-9] ‘The war is over!’ claimed Alexander Lebed, Russia’s security chief, as he emerged from talks with Chechen fighters’ leader, Aslan Maskhadov, on August 31. But had a formula really been found to end 20 months of savage fighting over Chechen independence? All federal combat troops were to…

  • Socialism Today: US/Iraq: War threat averted – for now

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    [Socialism Today, No 27, April 1998, p. 14-18] The planned US air strike against Iraq was narrowly averted by the agreement reached by UN General Secretary, Kofi Annan, in Baghdad on 24 February. Thankfully, many thousands of Iraqi men, women and children, already suffering from the devastating effects of sanctions, escaped more death, injury and…

  • Socialism Today: No Way Back to New World Order

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    [Socialism Today, No 26, March 1998, p. 2-4] It now appears most probable, as we go to press, that the US will soon unleash a prolonged air strike against Iraq. The Clinton administration has delivered an ultimatum to Saddam, based on a maximum demand for unlimited scope for the UN weapons inspectors, which the Iraqi…

  • Peter Taaffe: Russia’s agony

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    [Socialism Today, No 28, May 1998, p. 24-28] Peter Taaffe reviews a recently published book, Rebirth of a Nation – an Anatomy of Russia, by the former Financial Times Moscow correspondent, John Lloyd (Michael Joseph Publishing, £20). John Lloyd built a reputation in the 1980s as a perceptive industrial reporter for the Financial Times, particularly…

  • Russia, Eastern Europe and State Capitalism

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    On the question of Eastern Europe, what was the process of the counter-revolution and why was there not a serious revolutionary movement of the Russian working class? We have written a lot of material on this. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was one of the greatest setbacks for the working class…

  • Lynn Walsh: US-Russian Relations

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 23-28] The End of the Affair Washington’s love affair with budding Russian capitalism has run into serious complications. Early romantic illusions, stimulated by the Western capitalists’ greed for profits, have gone. Instead of prosperity, the biggest slump in modern times. Instead of a flowering parliamentary democracy, a Bonapartist…

  • Leon Trotsky: Introduction to the Tatar-Language Edition of Problems of Everyday Life

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    [October 29, 1924, A letter to the Central Publishing House of the Peoples of the East. English translation in: Problems of Everyday Life and Other Writings on Culture & Science. New York, London, Sydney 1973, p. 79] Dear Comrades: I will, of course, be very pleased by the appearance of my book Problems of Everyday…