Introduction
The overall research programme of the Indian journal – Revolutionary Democracy (RD) – has been valuable to the Marxist-Leninist movement. This research programme can be summarized as unearthing hitherto unpublished articles and letters of Stalin, and of the workers movement. This is an important and major endeavour. Through their relationship with several sources within the former USSR, the editors have brought several new writings to the movement.
We focus here upon a recent compilation of documents from the Soviet Archives, and an editorial from Revolutionary Democracy. Both these archival documents and editorial, concern the British Communist Party (CP). The archival documents in question, focus on the British Programme to be adopted in 1950.
While caution must continue on the veracity of documents emerging from ‘the archives’, the Editor of RD, Vijay Singh, appears to have ensured the highest standards in selecting documents. These documents provoke several questions for the Marxist-Leninist movement. We believe, that in all likelihood these documents are not forgeries lurking in the archives.
Nonetheless, how such data are to be interpreted, is obviously subject to discussion.
The report here, contains the following sections:
1. An introduction: The State of the British Communist Party in 1950 and Stalin’s Advice
2. A reprint of two pieces from Revolutionary Democracy. The first; consists of 17 pages, in 6 documents, from the RGASPI (The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History); and the second is an editorial by Vijay Singh.
3. A response by Hari Kumar to Revolutionary Democracy.
4. A response by Garbis Altinoglu to Revolutionary Democracy.
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