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• Lenin's State Monopoly Capitalism

  Published: October 21, 2007, 7:16 am

  Tags: Nanny State, China, State Capitalism, Nep, Bolsheviks, Monopoly, Ussr, Lenin, Monopoly Capitalism, Kronstadt

  Capitalism? So what did the Bolsheviks aim to create in Russia? Lenin was clear, state capitalism. He argued this before and after the Bolsheviks seized power. For example, in 1917, he argued that "given a really revolutionary-democratic state, state-monopoly capitalism inevitably and unavoidably implies a step, and more than one step, towards

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• Battleship Potemkin

  Published: October 21, 2007, 6:06 am

  Tags: Russian Revolution, Movies, Communism, Bolsheviks, Film, Anarchism, Russia, Trotsky

  It was a rude shock to the Bolsheviks when the red sailors of Kronstadt went into open rebellion in March 1921. The sailors saw themselves as loyal to the Soviet cause, if not to the Communist rulers. That bitter winter saw Kronstadt, like most other cities in Russia, hungry and discontented. Anger at material deprivations was compounded by the

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