International Communist Review - Issue 7 - 2017
Centenary of the Great Proletarian Revolution – Lessons for communists, (“Sovetskii Soyuz”, Russian Communist Workers’ Party)
The Great October Socialist Revolution inaugurated a new era of social revolutions, Pável Blanco Cabrera and Ángel Chávez (“El Comunista”, Communist Party of Mexico)
The significance of the October Revolution in the era of the transition from capitalism to socialism-communism, Dimitris Koutsoumpas (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)
October Revolution and the Vanguard Party – Some historical and theoretical conclusions, Kemal Okuyan (“Gelenek”, Communist Party of Turkey)
The lessons of the Great October Socialist Revolution, the need for a Revolutionary Party, party building and the experiences of the Party of the Bolsheviks, Gerry Grainger (“Think Left”, Workers’ Party of Ireland)
The Revision of the Great October on the 20th and 22th Congress of the CPSU, Gyula Thürmer (“Szabadsag”, Hungarian Workers’ Party)
The Great October Revolution and its Influence on Latin America, Carolus Wimmer (“Debate Abierto”, Communist Party of Venezuela)
Bourgeois and Opportunist Campaign of Denigration of the October and the USSR International Policy as a Tool of Destruction of the Socialist State, Vladimir Frolov (“Latvijas Socialists”, Socialist Party of Latvia)
The Bolsheviks and the National Question, Ainur Kurmanov (Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan)
The October Revolution and Yugoslavia – Past, Present and Perspectives, Marijan Kubik and Alksandar Banjanac (New Communist Party of Yugoslavia)
Italian Workers Movement at the Time of the Red October, Guido Ricci and Alberto Lombardo (“Critica Proletaria”, Communist Party, Italy)
Table of Contents
Dear reader,
You have in your hands the 7th issue of the “International Communist Review”, which was published in 2017 and is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. ...
The Great October Socialist Revolution is the best known revolution in the world, whereas due to its influence on the development of mankind it’s the greatest of all known revolutions
October Revolution is the first successful attempt to establish the dictatorship of proletariat. ...
Within Marxist theory, one of the main texts that summarizes historical materialism is the “Preface to the Contribution of the Critique of Political Economy”, in this text Marx mentions that between one mode of production and another there forms a time of transition which he denominates “time ...
In 2017 we will honour the 100th anniversary of the Great Socialist Revolution that took place in 1917 in Russia. This event marked and determined the course of millions of people, not just within the geographical confines of the first workers' state in the history of humanity, the USSR, but it ...
In February 1917 when Russia once again faced with the reality of a revolution after 1905, those who would claim that, “in Russia, in eight months’ period the working class will come to power under the leadership of the Bolsheviks and the socialist construction will start”, would be considered ...
“For the proletariat to be strong enough to win on the decisive day, it must … form a separate party distinct from all others and opposed to them, a conscious class party. ...
Hundred years have passed since the Great October Socialist Revolution triumphed on the 7th of November 1917. The Hungarian Workers' Party celebrates the Great October as an outstanding event of the universal history, an event that had a decisive influence on the world, the international ...
The hundredth anniversary of the Great October Revolution comes in the midst of a counteroffensive by imperialism and the forces of reaction against the social and political advances of the working class. ...
“Nationalism is a disease, and those who have at least had it once will have it again, though in a milder form. And its worst property is being able to darken even the brightest mind…”
Pēteris Stučka
Chairman of the First Government (1918) of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Russian Empire, the former “prison of nations”, where the tsarist autocracy pursued a policy of national oppression in the border regions, as expressed in the famous dictum of the ideologist of tsarism Pobedonostsev “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality” is again the ideal for the ruling class ...
The Great October Socialist Revolution that happened one hundred years ago turned a new page in the history of mankind. The Great October Revolution ignited the revolutionary spirit in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people around the world, and infused them with confidence in their fight ...
November 7th (October 25th, according to the old Orthodox calendar) 1917, the volleys by the cruiser Avrora and the storming to the Winter Palace, the residence of the interim government, open a new era, in which the proletarian masses, under the leadership of the working class, requiring the ...
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