Workers Group
The Communist Left in Russia after 1920 - Ian Hebbes
A re-evaluation by the late Ian Hebbes of the continued existence of a Left Communist opposition within the USSR up until the 1930s.
Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin: G. T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group - Paul Avrich
Paul Avrich's article from 1984 about G.T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group
Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin:
G. T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group
Paul Avrich
(RUSSIAN REVIEW, Vol. 43, 1984 pp. 1-29)
Lenin, Also - Ante Ciliga
Chapter 9 of Book 3 of Ante Ciliga's extraordinary book The Russian Enigma, originally published as In The Land of The Great Lie.
The book details Ciliga's time spent in Soviet Prisons and "isolaters" following his arrest for belonging to the Trotskyist Opposition, and provides a wealth of important documentary information concerning the miserable conditions in which the working class were reduced to living in, the extent of the 'criminalisation' of large swathes of the population,and the various forms in which resistance ap
What was the USSR? Part III
In the previous articles we examined various Trotskyist and neo-Trotskyist positions on the nature of the USSR.
We now turn to the theories of the less well known but more interesting Communist Left, who were among the first revolutionary Marxists to distance themselves from the Russian model by deeming it state capitalist or simply capitalist.The Russian Left Communists' critique remained at the level of an immediate response to how capitalist measures were affecting the class, whereas in both the German/D
