Bolshevik opposition to Lenin: G. T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group
Paul Avrich's article from 1984 about G.T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group
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Paul Avrich's article from 1984 about G.T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group
A short essay on the left opposition in the Bolshevik Party in Russia from 1919 to 1927, focusing mostly on the Democratic Centralists and the Workers Opposition.
Alongside the Russian workers' attempts to create socialism -- not as some abstract far-off utopia in a political party program, but through confronting and changing the concrete reality of their everyday life -- were the activities of socialist parties, supposedly sympathetic to working class aspirations. This pamphlet tells the story of the Russian workers' struggle, in particular the efforts of the factory committees.
Chattopadhyay applies Marxian categories to the Russian Revolution of 1917 to examine its socialist content.
In reality, 2021 marks the centennial of a political party that ceased to exist nearly 90 years ago.