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Month: June 2022

Review: “Molotov’s Letter to The Central Committee of CPSU – On the Personality Cult and the Programme of CPSU”

Note: The text below is an excerpt. Download the entire document as a 30+ page PDF file via this link. Additionally, the article below includes a reference to W.B. Bland’s review of Molotov’s memoir, which we have reproduced in its entirety via this link. Book Review: “Molotov’s Letter to The Central Committee of CPSU – On the Personality Cult and the Programme of CPSU”; Ed. Svitlana M, Erdogan A; np; 2022 – Hereafter “Letter”; 372 pages Hari Kumar: June 5, 2022  As pdf found on web at: https://neodemocracy.blogspot.com/2022/05/letter-from-v-m-molotov-to-central.html To avert any dismantling of any of our future socialist constructions, we…

Book Review: Molotov’s Memoirs (W.B. Bland)

Below, we reproduce William Bland’s review of Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics, as it appeared in the October 1993 issue of COMpass (issue 108). A PDF of the work as it was originally published is available at the Marxists Internet Archive via this link. -ML Currents Today, June 2022 Albert Resis (Ed.): ‘MOLOTOV REMEMBERS: INSIDE KREMLIN POLITICS’; Chicago; 1993. Vyacheslav Molotov was Stalin’s closest comrade-in-arms, and held for many years very important positions in the Soviet Union. One might have hoped, therefore, that his memoirs would have contained valuable information on the way in which revisionists managed to wreck socialism…