Historians and international relations scholars use the terms “Stalinism” and “Stalinist” to distinguish the Soviet communist regime under Joseph Stalin from communist leaders in other periods of ...
The World Socialist Web Site and Mehring Books announce the publication of Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928–1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition by Marxist sociologist and historian Vadim Z.
Visitors leaving Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport today can purchase a box of chocolates in the duty-free shop with a replica of a poster from the 1930s on the back, in which Stalin grasps ...
In a lecture focused on the political changes in Europe following World War I, Andrew Sobanet, chair of the French department, examined the rise of Stalinist thought in France during the early 20th ...
“In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. … Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building. … For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes.” George ...
A review of two books on the topic of working class responses to Stalinism in the USSR. Submitted by Juan Conatz on August 27, 2012 Kevin Murphy, Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a ...
July 16 marked the 115th anniversary of the birth of Nathan Steinberger, a Jewish socialist and survivor of Stalin’s terror in the Soviet Union. He died 20 years ...
Aufheben, 'What was the USSR?' Part I: Trotsky and state capitalism; Part II: Russia as a non-mode of production; Part III: Left communism and the Russian revolution; Part IV: Towards a theory of the ...
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