Communism

Fifty years after Khrushchev’s famous denunciation of Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, John Etty examines what was at stake.

Russell Tarr explains how the Bolsheviks established their grip on Russia after the 1917 Revolution, and at what cost.

Chris Corin restores two Old Bolsheviks to their rightful places in Soviet History.

Vincent Barnett contrasts Marxist idealism with the changing economic reality in the USSR.

Ian Thatcher refuses to take Trotsky at his own valuation.

Robert Pearce gives a historian’s-eye view of George Orwell’s classic novel.

A mutual defence treaty between Communist states was signed on 14 May 1955.

Martin Evans and Emmanuel Godin ask how close was France to becoming a Communist country in the years after the Second World War.

John Etty charts the complex, and highly significant, relationship between Lenin and Stalin.