Word: bolsheviks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bolshevik Revolution effected less change in the Soviet Union than most people think, Professor Richard Pipes said at a symposium yesterday...
...dispute between Britain and the Soviet Union had been unresolved for 68 years. The subject: bonds issued by the Czar before the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. Soon after the Communists took power, they repudiated the debt, including bonds with a face value of $75 million that were held by British investors. The Soviets also nationalized $1.35 billion worth of British property in the U.S.S.R. In retaliation, London seized Soviet assets in Britain with an estimated value of $68 million...
Following the collapse of the Russian Empire and the ensuing Bolshevik revolution, Ukraine was carved up among the Soviet Union. Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia. While the Poles and Romanians repressed their Ukrainian populations, persecution was even worse in the Soviet-controlled eastern portion...
...pockets of all the delegates to this congress, myself included." He also indirectly denounced Stalin's reign of terror throughout the 1930s. "We do not have the right to remain silent about the fact that many middle- class farmers were trampled upon . . . that there was a merciless extermination of Bolshevik guards, the best commanders in the army and industrial officials...
...stand by the other slogans. The heroic victory of Vietnamese workers and peasants was an important defeat for U.S. imperialism. And today, the U.S. bourgeoisie sees Central America as its starting point for a war ultimately aimed at destroying the Soviet Union. We in the SYL believe that he Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is the single greatest victory of the international working class to date, and the greatest defeat for world imperialism. In spite of the parasitic Stalinist bureaucracy which has usurped political power from the proletariat, the central gains of a planned collectivized economy still remain...