Schlagwort: Soviet Union
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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…