Schlagwort: Soviet Union
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Lynn Walsh: Poland and Hungary Returning to capitalism?
[Militant International Review, No 42, Winter 1990, p. 16-27] Lynn Walsh considers whether it is possible or even likely that Poland and Hungary could revert to the orbit of capitalism. There are many conditional factors involved. The political revolution has begun. The earthshaking movement of the Vorkuta, Siberian and Ukrainian miners during 1989 has rocked…
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Leon Trotsky: What are the Tasks of the ‘Peasant Newspaper’?1
[Published on 17 November 1924 in ,Крестьянская Газета‘ [Krest’yanskaya Gazeta, Peasant Newspaper] No. 51. My own translation of the Russian reprint, published in Сочинения. Том 21. Москва-Ленинград, 1927. Проблемы культуры. Культура переходного периода {Sochineniya, Tom 21, Moskva-Leningrad, 1927. Problemy kul’tury. Kul’tura perekhodnogo perioda, Works, Volume 21, Moscow-Leningrad 1927. Problems of culture. Culture of the transition…
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Peter Taaffe: From bureaucrat to dissident
[Militant International Review, No 28, January 1985, p. 9-15] Peter Taaffe analyses the recently published memoirs of Pyotor Grigorenko. The figure of Grigorenko is familiar to those who followed the so-called „dissident“ movement in Russia in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. Because of his determined and heroic opposition to Stalinism he was the only Red…
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Jimmy Deane: What’s going on in the Kremlin? – Khrushchev’s fall proves shakiness of Soviet bureaucrats
[The Militant, No 2, November 1964] The successful launching by the Soviet Union of a capsule containing three men into earth orbit astonished the world with its technical and scientific achievement. Two days after this important and spectacular event the world was shaken by the news that Khrushchev had been deposed from a position which…
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Rob Sewell: Crisis in Soviet Union
[Militant International Review, No 23, October 1982, p. 13-22] Economy stifled by bureaucracy After six and a half decades of breathtaking progress, catastrophe and upheaval, the USSR still remains for many workers an enormous paradox. On the one side are the colossal achievements; and on the other is the repression of a totalitarian police dictatorship.…
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Roger Silverman: The Gathering Storm in Russia
[Militant International Review, No 3, Autumn 1970, p. 34-47] Every totalitarian regime is by its very nature a regime of crisis, an expression of class deadlock. The Stalinist bureaucracy in Russia, which overturned all the political rights won by the revolution, owed its power after the betrayal of the revolution in the West, to the…
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Peter Taaffe: Andropov and after …
[Militant International Review, No 25, February 1984, p. 11-19] Just before he died Moscow wags had already passed verdict on Andropov’s brief fifteen months in power. A variation on an old joke read as follows: Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov are travelling on a red train. The train breaks down. “Fix it” orders Stalin. They…
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Peter Taaffe: Russia: Reform or Political Revolution?
[Militant International Review, No 19, Spring 1980, p. 12-18] Review article of Roy Medvedev’s ‘On Socialist Democracy’ published by McMillan Roy Medvedev’s book, “‘On Socialist Democracy”, was first published in Britain in 1975. It is an analysis of the situation which Russia finds itself in 60 years after the Russian Revolution. Although most of the…