Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist China is a heavy drain; pledges to neutral lands are nagging overdue notes. Interlaced with and more important than these economic woes is the Soviet Union's political trouble. Inside the Kremlin, the struggle for power at the top still goes on; there is nothing in Marxist theory or Soviet history that can guide the Russian ruling committee's internal power problem...
Bewildered Pupil. The truth was that the Kremlin, with or without lying help from the late Beria, had known exactly what Tito was up to all these years. Born in Yugoslavia, trained in Yugoslavia, admired and hated in Yugoslavia, Tito owed the Russians little except a postgraduate schooling in Marxist dogma and Communist deceit. He had run his own war with little help or advice; he planned to run his own peace...
Over the Pans. To judge by their manifestoes, the antagonists had few real deep-down issues to differ over. Burned badly by their six-year watch over the hot pans of nationalization, the Laborites are no longer such strident advocates of Marxist Socialism. The once deep-blue Tories, turned pastel by the demands of a new, more progressive generation of Conservatives, have dismantled only a part of the Welfare State (public ownership of the steel and road transport). They have committed themselves to many of the economic and social concepts it was built upon. In foreign policy the two parties...
...Russian Revolution: in seven volumes, he chronicled its events with movie vividness. As an original member of the Executive Committee of the first Soviet, he also co-directed the early scenes. Sukhanov was an economist, the editor (under Maxim Gorky) of the radical newspaper New Life, and a maverick Marxist. Although he himself knew almost everyone who made the revolution, he is today virtually forgotten except among professional historians. His seven-volume work was first published in 1922, but it has just now been pruned to a single volume and translated into English by Joel Carmichael, onetime OSS officer...
Sukhanov refused to become a Bolshevik and regarded Lenin and Trotsky as brazen adventurers, ignorant of the mas ter role of economics in "scientific Socialism." By October, Lenin and Trotsky were more intent on seizing power than sticking to strict Marxist theory. Ironically, they decided on a coup d'état in Sukhanov's own flat; Lenin showed up, still incognito, wearing a wig and without beard. Two weeks later, in what is known as the October revolution, the Bolsheviks marched friendly troops to key points and Trotsky sneeringly consigned opposition party members to the "dustbin of history...