International Communist Review - Issue 12 - 2022
The development of V.I. Lenin's Dialectics of the World and National Tasks of the Proletarian Revolution and soviet state, Article of the UCU ("Marxism i Sovremennost", Union of Communists of Ukraine)
The state of Proletarian Dictatorship: Soviet experience of realisation - Lessons for the future, Vyacheslav Sychev (“Sovetskii Soyuz”, Russian Communist Workers’ Party)
The Socialist State in Latvia: From the revolutionary triumph to the drama of dissolution, Vladimir Frolov (“Latvijas Socialists”, Socialist Party of Latvia)
The Speech of Khrushchev at the 20th Congress of the CPSU: Socialism rendered defenceless, Kemal Okuyan (“Gelenek”, Communist Party of Turkey)
The internationalist contribution of the USSR - A critical examination of aspects of its foreign policy, Elisseos Vagenas (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)
Open conflict between the USSR and the PRC of the 50-70s (Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan)
Questions of ideology and strategy in the communist movement of Latin America in the framework of the counterrevolution, Pável Blanco Cabrera (“El Comunista”, Communist Party of Mexico)
The Dismantling of the Soviet Union, a Hard Blow for the World Working Class, Raúl Martínez and Gorka Sáenz (“Nuestra Politica”, Communist Party of the Workers of Spain)
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Dear Reader,
The 12th issue of the “International Communist Review” (ICR), which you are holding in your hands, is dedicated to the first workers’ state in history, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). ...
The deepest contradiction of the proletarian socialist revolution, which forms the core of the dialectics of the revolutionary process, is the contradiction between the world and national tasks of the proletariat. ...
30 years ago the USSR retired from the historical stage. It was the first proletarian state in the World, it managed not only to survive through the hard civil war confrontation in the first years of its formation, but also to organize the great process – the building of socialism, and as the ...
Latvia has a special place in the history of the revolutionary movement and the socialist construction in Russia, during the 20th century. At the end of the 19th century, the rapid development of capitalism was marked in the Governorates of Livonia and Courland, in the Russian Empire (today ...
On February 25, 1956, the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union convened. Congresses have always been important turning points in the history of real communist parties, while the 20th Congress gained importance as it was a historical blow to the communist character of the ...
The victory of the October Revolution and the establishment of the first workers’ state in the world, the USSR, created a new reality regarding international relations as well. ...
The complex relations between the largest countries where communist parties were in power ran like a red thread through the most important world political events, starting from the second half of the fifties and up to the end of the seventies of the last century. ...
We are almost at the 30th anniversary of the critical moment in the counterrevolutionary process that led to the overthrow of the socialist construction in the USSR and other European countries, Africa, Asia, but especially in the USSR. ...
On December 26, 1991 the red banner weaving over the Kremlin was lowered. The Soviet Union was dismantled in spite of 77.8% of Soviet citizens who manifested for the preservation of its continuity in the March 17, 1991 Referendum. ...
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