Workers Group

The Communist Left in Russia after 1920 - Ian Hebbes

Miasnikov.

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

Gavril Miasnikov, centre, with other Bolsheviks.

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