[PDF] Russias Communists At The Crossroads eBook

Author : Joan Urban
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429977115

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This book is about the evolution of the communist movement in the Russian Federation from the last years of the U.S.S.R.’s existence through Russia’s presidential elections of June july 1996, when the chief contenders were the incumbent president, Boris N. Yeltsin, and his communist challenger, Gennadii A. Ziuganov. Our main protagonist is the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, or CPRF as it is commonly called. But the CPRF was a latecomer to the post-Soviet communist playing field. Its formal establishment came only in February 1993, well after the formation of a number of more doctrinaire communist parties which initially competed with the CPRF and influenced its political profile and conduct in numerous, if not always readily apparent, ways. All of these new Russian CPs emerged from the rubble of what had been the mighty and supposedly monolithic Communist Party ofthe Soviet Union (CPSU). On the Marxist-Leninist political spectrum, however, the range of the official positions espoused by these post-Soviet neocommunist groups was more comparable to that of the international communist movement as a whole in the post-Stalin era than to the CPSU under Nikita S. Khrushchev and Leonid I. Brezhnev.

Author : Joan Urban
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 1997-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813329314

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Less than five years after President Boris Yeltsin's ban on communist activity in Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) rose from the debris of the former Communist Party of the Soviet Union to win over one-third of the seats in the lower house of parliament in December 1995 and to challenge Yeltsin for the presidency itself in mid-1996. This groundbreaking study analyzes the CPRF's evolution as it sought to reshape its program and practice to fit the realities of post-Soviet Russia while also battling the more orthodox Marxist-Leninist groups on its left. The authors examine the CPRF's origins, internal factions, and electoral strategy during the parliamentary and presidential contests of 1995 and 1996. They address in particular the nationalist thinking of CPRF chairman Gennadii A. Ziuganov as well as the political profile of leadership and official program that were endorsed at the Third CPRF Congress in January 1995. The CPRF's alternative strategic choices and prospects in the aftermath of the critical 1995–1996 electoral season are also assessed.

Author : Michael Taber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004366784

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This volume contains the proceedings and resolutions from three expanded meetings of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (Comintern) held in 1922–1923, while Lenin was still alive. At these 'mini-congresses', Communist leaders from around the world debated out major strategic questions and initiatives, from united front policy to the fight against fascism. The material in this book – much of it appearing in English for the first time – is an essential source for understanding the world revolutionary movement in Lenin’s time, as well as the subsequent evolution of the Comintern. It is an important supplement to the widely acclaimed series of volumes edited by John Riddell containing the record of the Comintern’s first four world congresses.

Author : Anne O'Hare McCormick
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Communism
ISBN :

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London edition (Williams and Norgate ltd.) has title: Communist Russia: the hammer and the scythe.

Author : Robert Vincent Daniels
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874516166

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An extensive revision of the valued but unobtainable 1960 edition. Nearly 300 key documents are now readily available in translation.

Author : Luke March
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Drawing on extensive research, Luke March details the ideology, organization, and activity of a political phenomenon which has received little in-depth analysis or scholarly consensus. He analyses the Communist Party of the Russian Federation's evolution in the context of post-Soviet political developments to provide detailed and stimulating examination of a party whose role in Russian politics is far more complex and contradictory than is generally understood.