The essay of the Marx researcher has deep thoughts: first it confronts the systematisation of the heritage of the founding father with the openness of dialectics; second, he sees that political needs won over science in the reception in Russia. Facts of social practice have been replaced by the needs of scientific analysis as it happened with Kautsky – contrary to the efforts made by Gramsci at the same time.
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Lenin and the Russian intelligentsia – Overview on the history of the “philisopher’s ship”
Based on archive documents, the Russian author reconstructs how and on what considerations Lenin and Bolshevik leaders sent representatives of the former Russian intelligentsia into exile in 1922. Expelling the enemies of the revolution – from Berdyaev to Sorokin – had historical roots, several groups of the Russian intelligentsia were supporting the authoritarian regime against the 1905 Russian Revolution and after 1917 many of them – like Sergei Bulgakov or Peter Struve – actually supported the Whites and later waged a "class-war" against the new intelligentsia of the Soviet power. Although, the exile probably saved their life by escaping from Stalin's oppression but the traditional Russian culture still suffered a great loss.
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The relevance of October to us Russians and to the world
As the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution was approaching Moscow intellectuals made an announcement in June 2007.
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Original text in Russian: http://www.ikd.ru/node/3013
56 defeated in 1957 and in 1990
The preface of the booklet containing the contributions to the conference "The positive heritage of 1956: the workers councils" has pointed out that the spirit of the 1956 workers councils threat any party regime. Thus the one-party regime of the Kádár era and the multi-party regime after the system change both – as they well-conceived joint interest – repressed workers councils, which were fighting for ownership rights.
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A French passion: Trotskyism (Part 1)
Trotskyism the Bolshevik "heretic sect" achieved relative success in France when the "eldest daughter of the Communist Church" the FCP was preparing for a "betrayal" or actually completed it. The author makes a historic review of the three tides of Trotskyism before its retreat in the 1990s