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- Karl Marx
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Poznań 1956: The first workers’ uprising in Stalinist Poland
Poland’s 1956 Poznań uprising saw tens of thousands of workers rise up against the Stalinist bureaucracy. Although brutally crushed, this revolt shook the Moscow and Warsaw regimes, and precipitated revolutionary struggle across the Eastern Bloc.
Khrushchev’s secret speech – the dam begins to burst
70 years ago, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech which posthumously accused Joseph Stalin of repression and murder. This repudiation reverberated around the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, sparking debate, dissent, and revolution.
Lenin vs Stalin on the national question: Lessons from Hungary
In part five of our Hungarian Revolution series, Maya Khan discusses how the Hungarian masses’ struggles against national oppression and bureaucracy were inseparable. The Stalinists’ approach to the national question was the antithesis of Lenin’s.