Stalinism vs bolshevism
"The bureaucracy has expropriated the political power of the proletariat."
– Leon Trotsky
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Czechoslovakia (1968): Stalinism rocked by crisis – Part One
To mark the 40th
anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia,
we are here reprinting an article by Alan Woods, first written on September 4,
1968, and published in the Winter edition of the Spark, in which he clearly
relates the momentous events that shook the Stalinist regimes and explains
their significance.
The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
Founded after the Russian Revolution, the Third Communist International was a mighty force in the fight for world revolution. But under Stalin, it was transformed into a tool of the Soviet bureaucracy, and then abandoned altogether in 1943.