Word: shachtman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Russia is no longer a truly socialist country, Max Shachtman, a founder of the American Communist Party, said last night, speaking in Burr A on "Fifty Years of Soviet Rule: Worker's Paradise Lost...
...could imagine a bleaker outcome of the promises of 1917," he said. In 1917 socialists were sure that world revolution was imminent. By 1923 this hope had dimmed, but there was still promise in the "unique Bolshevik revolution." With the Stalinist counter-revolution, this possibility, too, was gone, Shachtman said...
...order to modernize Russia, the resistance of the people had to be eliminated, Shachtman said. Modernization was accompanied by the greatest expansion of bureaucracy ever seen anywhere, he continued...
...Shachtman, one-time personal secretary of Leon Trotsky and a founder of the American Communist Party, will speak on "Fifty Years of Soviet Rule: Workers' Paradise Lost?" at 8 p.m. tonight in Burr...