Kevin Murphy Text available in English and in Chinese Over some twenty minutes, I will attempt to explain the origins of the Moscow Left Bolsheviks among both young workers and students before 1917 and their extreme radical positions and collaboration with Lenin during the 1917 revolution when they fought for Soviet power. I will also
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Liam Kruger In all that has been written about the Russian Revolution and the internal dynamics of the Bolshevik Party, there has yet to be an attempt to detail the origins of the Party’s longest active internal left-wing opposition group; the Democratic Centralists (Decists). What accounts exist in various ways mischaracterize the Decists and fail
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Text in English, Russian LETTER FROM COMRADE SAPRONOV (to Pilipenko, 18 June 1928) Dear friend! You are right, the situation is now such that we must submit a petition to the Congress of the Comintern. Of course, it should have been a collective one from the “group of 15.” But it is not our fault,
Text in English, Russian (August 5, 1928 in postscript) Obtained by [agency] means Dear Comrade Nechaev, I really was not doing right by not having taken the time to reply to you until now. Finally, I have gathered my thoughts. You write: “If we could agree on a common position, there would be no further
Text in English, Russian (February 1928) After the XV Congress of the VKP(b). In addition to the crackdown on the left proletarian wing of the Party, as if to compensate for that repression, the XV Congress was not stingy with a number of “left-wing” resolutions and directives. A “forced” offensive against the kulak was proclaimed,
Text in English, Russian RESOLUTION AGAINST DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM The declaration of October 16 defines our position regarding the party and the line of our work within the Party. Anyone who disagrees with the declaration of October 16 has not understood the whole situation and has no right to claim any solidarity with us. The proposal
Text in English, Russian LETTER TO SAPRONOV Dear comrade, I very much wanted to have a comradely conversation with you. From your letter, I see that you are extremely irritated. I fear that, under these circumstances, a conversation might only aggravate the situation further. I will be leaving for the south for a few weeks.
Text in English, Russian APPEAL TO THE WORKERS OF THE ROGOZHSKO-SIMONOVSKY DISTRICT. Early 1929 (undated) Comrades! New repressions have been unleashed on the workers of the USSR, and mass arrests have resumed in factories and plants. The number of revolutionaries arrested in the USSR has already surpassed the number in any fascist state. The GPU
Text in English, Russian Early 1928 With their letter of January 27, 1928, Zinoviev and Kamenev completed their path of betrayal. At the 15th Congress they capitulated to the Thermidorian Stalinist apparatus, abandoning not only active struggle against it and the advocacy and defense of their views before the Party, but even their views themselves.
Text in English, Russian and Portuguese Stalinism and the Crisis of 1928: The Trotskyist-Decist Dialogue Kevin Murphy 1928 was the pivotal year in the development of the Stalinist system. In a period of just fourteen months, Stalin and his lieutenants defeated two major oppositions—the United Opposition in late 1927, and then, a year later,
