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Boris Yeltsin stands on a tank in front of journalist during the failed 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachov

30 Years Ago — Defeat of Anti-Gorbachev Coup Leads to Collapse of USSR

August 19, 2021Rob Jones

Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (CWI in Russia). The impression of the press conference on August 19, 1991 as eight aged generals, KGB officers and Stalinist bureaucrats announced “emergency rule” could not have filled those who hoped they would save the Soviet Union with confidence. Nothing could demonstrate better how the junta […]

When Khrushchev Denounced Stalin

April 6, 2016Niall Mulholland

Niall Mulholland is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Sixty years ago Nikita Khrushchev stunned Communist Party members around the world with a speech attacking Stalin, the then recently deceased dictator deified as the Soviet Union’s ‘great leader’. It sparked revolt against the rotten regimes in Russia and eastern Europe. Ultimately, it […]