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Soviet Union

Lenin’s struggle against bureaucracy

Details Alan Woods and Ted Grant logo 04 Jan 2023

Today marks the centenary of Lenin’s ‘Testament’, in which he took up the struggle against Stalin and the bureaucratisation of the Soviet state. His Testament – suppressed for decades – dispels the slander that Stalinism was the continuation of Leninism.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin

Details Niklas Albin Svensson logo 17 Dec 2021

This month marks the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR. The most powerful deformed workers’ state was collapsing into chaos as supposed communists were looting the state and its assets. The workers of the Soviet Union had to pay the price.

Russia: from revolution to counter-revolution

Details Alan Woods logo 18 Aug 2017

We publish here extracts from Alan Woods' introduction to the new Wellred Books' edition of Ted Grant's Russia: from Revolution to Counter-revolution, republished this year to celebrate the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution. In this intro, Alan discusses the enormous gains of the revolution - and how they were destroyed by Stalinist degeneration.

Trotsky’s Stalin – a Marxist masterpiece

Details Alan Woods logo 25 May 2016

Alan Woods discusses Trotsky’s great unfinished work, Stalin: a unique piece of Marxist literature that attempts to explain some of the most decisive events of the 20th century, not just in terms of epoch-making economic and social transformations, but in the individual psychology of those who appear as protagonists in a great historical drama. Support the publication of Trotsky's Stalin by Wellred Books by making a pledge today.

The Revolution Betrayed: a Marxist masterpiece

Details Alan Woods logo 21 Aug 2015

Continuing our commemoration marking the 75th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky, we publish here an introduction by Alan Woods to Trotsky's masterpiece: the Revolution Betrayed.

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