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Review: ‘Russia 1985-1999, TraumaZone’

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In a seven-part production for BBC TV, ‘TraumaZone’, Adam Curtis has delved into the predominantly unseen work of hundreds of BBC film crews carried out over 35 years across what was the USSR. In an […]

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Mikhail Gorbachev’s real record

September 4, 2022 Clare Doyle Committee for a Workers’ International

Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died at the age of 91, was the last president of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and was also general secretary of the 20 million-strong ruling Communist Party. Extensive […]

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Gorbachev: An accidental architect of world change

August 31, 2022 Peter Taaffe

The former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, died yesterday. Eulogies have come from many sources, including reactionary defenders of the capitalist system, like Henry Kissinger. But what did Gorbachev really stand for? What was his real […]

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August 1991: Revolution and counter-revolution in the Soviet Union

August 19, 2021 From the CWI archives (September 1991)

“1991 marked a turning point…We have entered a more disturbed period in world history, marked by sharper inter-imperialist rivalries and a deepening capitalist crisis.” (The Collapse of Stalinism) In 1991, the world watched as the […]

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30 years since aborted coup in Soviet Union

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It is thirty years since an ill-fated coup was launched against Mikhail Gorbachev, president of what was still known as the Soviet Union (USSR). It was over in three days. By the end of 1991, […]

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