Schlagwort: Soviet Union
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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…
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Resolution of the R.C.P. Conference on the Soviet Union
[Workers International News, Vol. 6, No. 9, p. 267-269] Conference reaffirms the basic programmatic conceptions of the Fourth International as they relate to the Soviet Union, to the dual nature of the system of society in the USSR as a transitional regime between capitalism and socialism and which therefore has both capitalist and socialist forces…
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Bill Hunter: Stalinism in Czechoslovakia
[Workers International News, Vol. 7, No. 5, June 1948, p. 1-10] The recent events in Czechoslovakia had a profound effect both on the international relationships between the Great Powers and on the working class movement. An analysis of the events are important for an understanding of the role of the Stalinist Parties. Even a cursory…
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Bill Hunter: The IS and Eastern Europe
[Internal document of the Revolutionary Communist Party, 1949] The resolution of the IS entitled “The Evolution of the Countries in the Buffer Zone”, and submitted to the last IEC gives no satisfactory answer to what are some of the major problems facing our movement. It seems that a desire to hang on at all costs…