He was a big fan of the revolution in general and of Stalin in particular.-The Russian Revolution became a kind of touch point for all kinds of left-wing intellectuals, George Bernard Shaw and ...

The Death of Stalin was released on the eve of the centenary of the Bolshevik takeover of the Russian Revolution on November 7 1917. (Although by the old style calender used in Russia at the time ...

Year by year, crisis by crisis, a fine-grained picture of Stalin’s intellectual development nevertheless emerges. It is easy to forget, but on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Stalin was in ...

How did Stalin come to power? After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin began consolidating power based on his key role in that aforementioned revolution: he was the man behind the scenes ...

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, China Míeville, Verso, 384 pages. The Dilemmas of Lenin: ... Only then, in Stalin’s view, could the revolution be exported abroad.

While Stalin lived, this theory was imposed as dogma on all Soviet military thinking. It fostered complacency and a false confidence in Soviet strength and hampered an open-minded examination no less ...

Those Leninist organisations which no longer see the Soviet Union as a workers state do not escape the contradictions either. If Stalin was the source of the problem why do so many Russian workers ...

Stalin's purges reached the very edges of the Soviet Union. ... The Russian Revolution inspired a whole generation of communists in India. Many, like Subhashini Ali,from Uttar Pradesh, ...

“Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932,” a groundbreaking exhibition of over 200 works now at the Royal Academy, London, explores the deeply political contexts that shaped Russian art of every ...