Critique of the book Tamas Krausz: Soviet Thermidor (Szovjet thermidor) Napvilág Kiadó, Budapest, 1996. The 1917 experiment in Russia has not ended in a way as it was expected. Krausz in his book investigates those views that as early as in the 1920s intrepreted the changes as a "Thermidor" or burgeois restauration.
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October: a light, a reflection or a will-o’-de-wisp
(Bergmann, Theodor – Hedeler, Wladislaw – Keßler, Mario – Schäfer, Gert (Hrsg.): Der Widerschein der Russischen Revolution. Ein kritischer Rückblick auf 1917 und die Folgen. [Reflections of the Russian revolution. Critical look at 1917 and its aftermath] Hamburg, VSA Verlag, 260.)
The book reviewed is a collection of lectures presented at a conference on the 80th anniversary of the Russian revolution in Elgersburg, Germany.
October 1917: a model for Western Marxists?
Lenin thought that due to the enormous develoment gap between different countries, the Russian revolution can only in a very limited sense be a model for Western communist movements. Later, the Soviet dominance in the international communist movement caused distortions in thinking and practice.
Left-wing strategies: France 1968
An introduction and critique of various tendencies within the 1968 French left. The analysis and behaviour of different groups in the radical movement.
Ilona Duczynska: losses and hopes
The article is based upon the memoirs of Ilona Duczynska, Karl Polanyi's wife. The author reconstructs the impressions, experience and impact that shaped the world view of the twelve year old girl, and created a foundation for her later revolutionary commitment.