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Note: This material was originally written by W.B. Bland in January 1995 for Marxist-Leninist Research Bureau, of which Bland was the principal author. The material uses the alternate transliteration “Chechenya” throughout. CHECHENYA (Introductory note) CHECHENYA (pronounced chech-en-YA) is a republic situated on the northern flank of the Caucasus Mountains, which form the republic’s southern boundary. Its area is 5,000 square miles and its population 700 thousand. Chechenya is surrounded by the territory of the Russian Federation on all sides — being bordered on the north by Kalmykia, on the east by Dagestan, on the south by Georgia, and on the…

Previously placed on the web by Alliance-ML, 2001. INTRODUCTION Marxism-Leninism is the scientific outlook of the working class, the science of socialism, and of its construction by the working people, the science of socialist revolution. The temporary victory of revisionism in the international communist movement has given rise to the widespread circulation of perversions of “Marxism -Leninism” shorn, in the interests of world imperialism, of its revolutionary content. Before dealing with the specific revolutionary process in Pakistan, it seems desirable to us therefore, to restate very briefly the essential principles of Marxism-Leninism in relation to colonial-type countries in general, as…