Category: Russia/USSR
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The October Revolution: the First Successful Proletarian Revolution
To celebrate the 106th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, we will go over a brief history of the party behind it and how it led the masses in seizing state power. This will be based on our book. Brief History of the Revolution The Bolsheviks were the revolutionary faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labor…
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Celebrate the People’s Victory Against Nazism, and Wage the Fight Against Modern Fascism!
On May 8 (May 9 in the USSR’s timezones), 1945, after six years of a worldwide conflict—actually, that conflict may stretch back even further, depending on how you interpret the situation in the world at the time—Nazi Germany’s army finally surrendered to the Allied Powers, officially ending World War Two in Europe and signifying the…
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Happy Birthday to Vladimir Lenin!
Recently passed Lenin’s 153rd birthday. We celebrate Lenin as a very important theorist and practitioner of Marxism in his time; like we said before, his theory transformed Marxism into Marxism-Leninism, and his practice created the first workers’ state, caused fear and terror for the world’s ruling classes, and inspired tens of millions of workers and…
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Comrade Lenin Is With Us Forever!
Vladimir Lenin passed away on January 21, 1924 after being shot in 1918, a series of strokes, the stress he faced from leading the RSFSR and then USSR, and other health issues. The opportunist rat that shot him, Fanny Kaplan, did so because she wanted “multi-party” socialism; this would have weakened the proletarian leadership of…
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In Defense of Socialism in One Country
Excerpts from our in-progress book Socialism in one country is a concept that Joseph Stalin contributed to Marxism-Leninism. Socialism can be constructed in one country, contrary to the idea that the revolution must be spread to the whole world before socialism is actually constructed and its relations of productions are established. While many Marxists believed…
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Happy CENTENNIAL to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)!
It is extremely strange to go from remembering its passing to celebrating its founding in four days, but that’s alright. What’s really important is that on December 30th, 1922, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR), Transcaucasian SFSR, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR), and Byelorussian SSR joined together to form the Union of…
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On the USSR’s Dissolution
Our view of the USSR’s dissolution is mixed. We see that the USSR by 1991 was not a socialist state, but a capitalist-imperialist superpower with terrible problems in its system. If the country remained socialist, it probably would be around today, but its capitalist restoration weakened its economy by causing shortages, stagnation, and corruption, so…
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Happy 144th Birthday to Comrade Stalin!
On December 18th, 1878, Josif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Joseph Stalin) was born in Gori, Georgia. Stalin was an extremely influential Marxist-Leninist leader and theoretician; his work before and during the revolution as well as In leading the USSR was absolutely great, for he led the Soviet people out of feudalism and capitalism. Under Stalin, life in…
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On the October Revolution
Today, in the former USSR, it is November 7th, the day of the Bolshevik Revolution. 105 years ago, the workers of Petrograd, led by Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik Party, seized political power, overthrowing the bourgeois Russian Republic and giving all power to the Soviets. The revolution itself was quick and fairly bloodless, but the…
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On The Topic Of “Totalitarianism”
If you’re an anti-communist (or better yet, a federal agent) who just happened to stumble upon this website, one of the first things that comes to your mind will probably be that we “evil commies” want to strip you of your freedoms and beat you into submission to the all-powerful state. Honestly, we can’t blame…
Maoism For The Masses 