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Introduction

THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS BOOK COVERED THE POST-STALIN HISTORY OF THE SOVIET UNION UP TO THE EARLY 1980s.

THIS FIRST EDITION DEMONSTRATED THAT THE SOCIAL SYSTEM WHICH HAD BY  THEN COME  INTO  EXISTENCE IN THE SOVIET UNION FOLLOWING THE 'ECONOMIC REFORMS'  OF 1965-66 WAS A STATE MONOPOLY CAPITALISM,  DOMINATED  BY  HEAVY  INDUSTRIAL CAPITAL,  IN WHICH THE CAPITALIST CLASS EXPLOITED THE WORKING CLASS.
IN THIS SOCIAL SYSTEM, THE COMMUNIST PARTY FUNCTIONED AS A FASCIST-TYPE PARTY WITHIN A FASCIST-TYPE STATE, AND WAS THE PRINCIPAL POLITICAL INSTRUMENT BY WHICH SOVIET HEAVY  INDUSTRIAL CAPITAL MAINTAINED ITS DOMINANT POSITIOM IN THE  ECONOMY  -- CONCEALING  THE REAL BASICALLY CAPITALIST CHARACTER OF SOVIET SOCIETY  BENEATH THE FALSE TRAPPINGS OF PSEUDO-SOCIALISM.

IN  FACT,  THE LAST PERIOD OF THE EXISTENCE THE SOVIET UNION, AFTER  1980,  WAS  CHARACTERISED BY A STRUGGLE BETWEEN TWO -- LATER THREE - MAJOR SECTIONS OF THE NEW CAPITALIST CLASS - MANIFESTING ITSELF IN THE FORM OF A STRUGGLE BETWEEN TWO -- LATER THREE -- MAJOR REVISIONIST POLITICAL GROUPINGS.

THE  FIRST  MAJOR POLITICAL GROUPING,  CLOSELY LINKED AT FIRST  WITH THE
COMMUNIST  PARTY  APPARATUS,   REPRESENTED THE THEN DOMINANT HEAVY INDUSTRIAL WING  OF  SOVIET CAPITAL.
SINCE THIS GROUPING FAVOURED THE RETENTION  OF THE PDEUDO-SOCIALIST FACADE ON WHICH THEIR DOMINANCE OF THE ECONOMY  DEPENDED, IT WAS OFTEN  PORTRAYED  AS  A  'CONSERVATIVE'  GROUPING.  IT  WAS  HEADED BY
YEGOR LIGACHEV,  WHO BECAME  IN MAY 1983 LEADER OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE'S DEPARTMENT FOR ORGANISATIONAL WORK, AND GENNADY YANAYEV, WHO BECAME A MEMBER OF  THE POLITBURO OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CPSU IN JULY 1990 AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE USSR IN DECEMBER 1990.

THE  SECOND  MAJOR POLITICAL GROUPING REPRESENTED OTHER WINGS  OF  SOVIET
CAPITAL  TOGETHER  WITH FOREIGN CAPITAL.  SINCE THIS GROUPING  FAVOURED  'FREE ENTERPRISE'  AND  A  'DEMOCRATISATION' OF THE POLITICAL  SYSTEM'  WHICH  WOULD PERMIT  THEM  TO  BREAK   THE DOMINANCE OF THE STATE BY  THE  FIRST  POLITICAL GROUPING, BUT RETENTION OF A CENTRALISED FEDERAL STATE STRUCTURE, IT WAS OFTEN PORTRAYED  AS  A  'RADICAL' OR 'REFORM' GROUPING.  IT WAS  HEADED  BY  MIKHAIL GORBACHEV,  WHO  BECAME A SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CPSU  WITH RESPONSIBILITY  FOR AGRICULTURE IN NOVEMBER 1978,  A MEMBER OF  THE  POLITICAL BUREAU  OF THE CC OF THE CPSU IN OCTOBER 1980,   GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE CPSU IN MARCH 1985 AND STATE PRESIDENT IN OCTOBER 1988.

AS WILL BE DEMONSTRATED, IN THE AUTUMN OF 1990 THE SECOND MAJOR POLITICAL GROUPING SPLIT INTO TWO.

Naturally,  in  the 1980s each of the political groupings within the CPSU still  felt  it  expedient to claim that it,  an] it  alone,  was  pursuing  a Marxist-Leninist political line. For example, at the 28th Congress of the CPSU in July 1990 Yegor Ligachev:

Again,  in March 1988 the newspaper 'Sovietskaya Rossiya' (Soviet Russia) published a letter from a Leningrad teacher, Nina Andreyeva, In April 1988, 'Pravda' published a full-page reply to Andreyeva 's letter attributed to Aleksandr Yakovlev, who became a Secretary of the Central Committee  in January 1987 and a member of the Politburo of the CC of the CPSU in June 1987, and who: Later in April 1988, 'Sovietskaya Rossiya' declared in an editorial that:  The 'Period of Stagnation' 1892-85

 In  October 1980,  Aleksei Kosygin resigned as Prime Minister (a post had held since 1964) and from the Political Bureau of the CC of the  CPSU. He was succeeded as Prime Minister by Nikolai Tikhonov.  Kosygin died in December 1980.

Leonid Brezhnev  died  in November 1982,  and was succeeded as General Secretary of the CPSU and as state President by Yuri Andropov, who had been head of the state security service (the KGB) from 1967 to 1982. Andropov died in  February  1984  and  was succeeded as General Secretary of the CPSU by Konstantin Chernenko. Chernenko died in turn in March 1985.

The period from 1980 to 1985 was one in which the first political grouping was dominant, so that the 'reform' process was held up;  it was a period in which 'economic reform' was checked, it was a period in which:

And so was: It was also a period of: Indeed, the late 1970s and early 1980s were later characterised by Gorbachev as:  The Gorbachev Period  1985-89

 In March 1985 Chernenko was succeeded as General Secretary of the CPSU by Mikhail Gorbachev.

 The  Gorbachev  period  - from 1985 to 1990-- became one in  which the second political grouping was dominant. Gorbachev's first year in office was:

since, as soon as he came to office, Gorbachev: He: largely under the guise of a: which: In July 1985, on the nomination of Gorbachev, Andrei Gromyko was 'promoted' i.e.,  State President.  He was succeeded as USSR Minister for Foreign Affairs by the Georgian Eduard Shevardnadze, who: Grigory Romanov, who was: was in July 1985: In September 1985,  Gorbachev: Tikhonov as Prime Minister, he being: a supporter of 'economic reform' who had been a member of the Politburo of the CC of the CPSU since April 1985.

 In December 1985, Viktor Grishin,  a leading member of the first (Ligachev/Yanayev) grouping

was dismissed as First Secretary for Moscow City, and succeeded in the post by a supporter of economic reform', Boris Yeltsin.

At the same time:

By June 1987, Gorbachev had: Gorbachev also: In June 1987, Yazov had been promoted to the rank of Army General in February 1984 and had been Commander of the Far Eastern Military District from June 1984 to November 1986.

At the 27th Congress of the CPSU in February/March 1986,

while Later, in April 1989, Criticism of Brezhnevism : 1986-88

 The  Gorbachev period was marked by criticism of the Soviet leadership  in the 1970s.
 For  example,  at the 27th Congress of the CPSU in  February/March  1986, Gorbachev:

and in December 1986, an editorial in 'Pravda' accused Brezhnev: Again,  at a Central Committee Plenum in January 1987,  Gorbachev: In February 1988, Lieutenant-General Yuri Churbanov,  the son-in-law of the late President Leonid Brezhnev, who had been Deputy Chairman of the KGB in 1980-1984, was: and in December 1988 was: In August 1988, it was decided that: 'Perestroika'

 The agenda of the now dominant 'reform' Party grouping included:

'Economic  reform'  - a  euphemism for measures in the direction of restoring a fully capitalist economic system -- was resumed even before the death of Chernenko, since during the Chernenko period: Thus, in August 1984, The memorandum argued that the system of centralised economic planning set up during Stalin's lifetime: In a report on economic policy delivered to a conference in Moscow in June 1985, Gorbachev: In October 1985,  a new economic programme for 1986-2000 was published, which: At the January 1987 Plenum of the CC of the CPSU there were: At a Party Plenum called in June 1987 to discuss 'restructuring', Gorbachev He proposed: It was at this Plenum that the decision was taken for the: and for: which meant:  In June 1988,  a joint resolution of the CC of the CPSU, the government and the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions: In September 1988, the government approved the: At the beginning of August 1990, USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Boris Yeltsin: The commission was headed by the economist Stanislav Shatalin At the end of August 1990,
  In September 1990, the USSR Supreme Soviet granted Gorbachev: During October 1990, In March 1991, a presidential decree brought into force: In June 1991, In July 1991, a bill on the: Deputies opposing the bill were: A Central Committee Plenum in July 1991 endorsed a new Party programme entitled 'Socialism, Democracy, Progress', which: The Economic Effects of Perestroika (1987-91)

 The operation of perestroika greatly worsened the economic situation in the Soviet Union.

 For example, inflation grew:

 In March 1987, the:

In April 1991: The budget deficit grew: The country's hard currency debt rose: Unemployment grew.  From July 1991: Rationing of staple foodstuffs was introduced. In December 1990, Thus, under perestroika, and by 1991, Glasnost : 1986-91

  Under the slogan of glasnost ('openness'), in June 1986:

In 1986 and 1987: In December 1986, the dissident scientist Andrei Sakharov was released from internal exile in Gorky,  and his wife Yelena Bonner was  pardoned  by decree. ('Keesing's Record of World Events', Volume 33; p. 35,471).

and in November 1988, Sakharov:

In October 1987, a branch of the Frankfurt-based 'International  Society for Human Rights' was formed legally in Moscow. ('Keesing's Record of World Events', Volume 33; p. 35,472).

In May 1990, a sweeping new law was passed:

In August 1990, Gorbachev by decree revoked: Among those named in the decree was the writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In September 1990, 'Democratisation' : 1985-91

Another key facet of Soviet policy under Gorbachev was the so-called 'democratisation', the principal  aim of which was to reduce the power of the first (Ligachev/Yanayev) politicalgrouping and increase that of second (Gorbachev) grouping.

Already, at the19th (Extraordinary) Conference of the CPSU in June/July 1988, Gorbachev spoke of:

by the installation of: A Central Committee Plenum in July 1988 decided that: In December 1988, In April 1989, the revisionist historian Roy Medvedey, author of  'Let History Judge', was: An important aspect of 'democratisation' was the legalisation of political organisations other than the Communist Party. By the spring of 1989, Thus, elections to the new USSR Congress of People's Deputies, held in March 1989, were the: In particular, many 'conservative' candidates, supporters of the first (LigachevlYanayev) grouping Yeltsin: At a Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU in April 1989, Gorbachev: In May 1989, the USSR Congress of People's Deputies: Like its predecessor, The new Supreme Soviet: However, Yeltsin failed to secure election: Also in May 1989, Anatoly Lukyanov: was elected: In July 1989,  the 'Inter-Regional Group' was formed within the  Congress of People1s Deputies: The Inter-Regional Group was: These developments were reflected in a steep decline in the influence of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, from which: Furthermore, and: The revisionists' programme of 'democratisation' included a  movement to abolish  the  'leading role' of the Communist Party laid down in Article 6 of the Soviet Constitution, and to abolish the democratic centralism' laid down in the Party Constitution.  A Plenum of the Central Committee in February 1990 was: In March 1990, the USSR Congress of People's Deputies: thus the Party: The new presidency:  In October 1990, a law: In December 1990, the USSR Congress of People's Deputies approved further constitutional changes which: Foreign Policy: 1985-91

The foreign policy of the Soviet Union during the Gorbachev period was based on seeking friendly -- even subservient -- relations with the West in order to encourage foreign investment in the Soviet Union.

Gorbachev:

Under Gorbachev, Thus, after 1985: and: In January 1987, the Soviet government approved a procedure whereby Soviet enterprises were permitted to create: The first Reagan-Gorbachev summit
This: The third Summit, in Washington in December 1987: In July 1989, Gorbachev: After the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in August 1990: Not surprisingly, in October 1990: Also in October 1990, Gorbachev used his emergency powers to issue a decree which: In January 1991, Ryzkov suffered a heart attack and resigned as Prime Minister, to be succeeded by Valentin Pavlov, who had been USSR Minister of Finance from July 1989 to January 1991.

In February 1991, Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov:

Also in February 1991,  In May 1991, In July 1991, The Soviet General Staff opposed the policy of detente:  In July 1991, Under Gorbachev, the Soviet Union collaborated with international financial organisations. For example, in July 1991: The Split in the 'Radical' Revisionist Grouping : Autumn 1990

 IN THE AUTUMN OF 1990, DIVERGING INTERESTS WITHIN THE SOVIET CAPITALIST   CLASS WERE REFLECTED IN A POLITICAL SPLIT WITHIN THE  SECOND  ('RADICAL') REVISIONIST GROUPING.

ONE SUB-GROUPING, HEADED BY MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, REPRESENTING PRIMARILY THE INTERESTS OF THE LIGHT THE INDUSTRIAL WING OF SOVIET CAPITAL.  BECAME KNOWN AS THE 'RADICAL' GROUPING.

ANOTHER SUBGROUPING,  HEADED BY BORIS YELTSIN,  REPRESENTING  PRIMARILY
THE  INTERESTS OF AN ALLIANCE OF RUSSIAN CAPITAL  WITH FOREIGN  IMPERIALIST CAPITAL, BECAME KNOWN AS THE 'ULTRA-RADICAL GROUPING'.

THE  MOST  IMPORTANT POLICY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO SUBGROUPINGS  WAS THAT  THE  FIRST  (GORBACHEV) SUB-GROUPING WISHED TO  RETAIN A  FAIRLY  TIGHT FEDERAL STATE STRUCTURE FOR THE SOVIET UNION,  WHILE THE SECOND (YELTSIN) SUBGROUPING WANTED TO SUBSTITUTE A MUCH LOOSER CONFEDERAL STATE STRUCTURE.

IN  ORDER  TO STRENGTHEN ITS ROLE RELATIVE TO THE FIRST AND  SECOND  SUBGROUPINGS,  THE  THIRD (YELTSIN) SUBGROUPING  ADOPTED THE STRATEGY OF WORKING TO  STRENGTHEN THE ROLE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (THE RSFSR) RELATIVE TO THAT OF THE SOVIET UNION AS A WHOLE.

The Movement to strengthen the Role of Russia March 1990 - July 1991

 The Brezhnevite leadership of the CPSU had:

The RSFSR Congress of People's Deputies, which convened in May/June 1990, The election of Yeltsin as chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet was effected: There followed By the autumn of 1990, and in October 1990 the USSR Supreme Soviet approved another: which was: The search for a compromise Russian Federation President,  Boris Yeltsin dismissed it on 1 September as an attempt to: In September 1990, By: Also in September 1990, the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet And the first (Ligachev/Yanayev) political grouping responded. In mid-1990, For its part, the third (Yeltsin) intra-Party grouping responded initiating the formation within the Russian Republic of: At a conference in August 1991, 'Communists for Democracy' became 'Democratic Party of Communists of Russia' (DPCR), which: Under the pressure of the second (Gorbachev) grouping, the CPSU: And later, in August 1991: The RCP was banned by Yeltsin in November 1991. (Martin McCauley: op. cit.; p. 161).

In March 1991, when a referendum was held in nine republics of the USSR to ask the public whether a restructured USSR should be retained:

The result of these manoeuvres was the temporary establishment of a dual power, with the Gorbachev revisionist grouping dominating the non-Russian areas of the USSR and the Yeltin revisionist grouping dominating the  Russian areas, the RSFSR.

 Russian presidential elections in June 1991:

June 1991 also saw: The third (Yeltsin) intra-Party grouping now took the lead in  'economic reform'. In June 1991, In July 1991, Russian President Boris Yeltsin: The Alliance of the First and Second Political Groupings (1990-91)

Confronted by the growing power of the third (Yeltsin) political sub-grouping, in November/December  1990 the second (Gorbachev) political sub-grouping felt compelled to form a temporary tactical alliance with the first (Ligachev/Yanayev) political grouping against the third (Yeltsin) grouping. In other words, Gorbachev's position:

He: These measures included: after Gorbachev appointed to succeed Bakatin, an adherent of  the  first (Ligachev/Yanayev) intra-Party grouping, namely, He also appointed another adherent of the first (Ligachev/Yanavtyev) grouping: In December 1990, Gorbachev promoted another leading member of the first (Ligachev/Yanayev) Political grouping, he: The New Union Treaty (1991)

In March 1990,

In April 1990, the USSR Supreme Soviet passed a new law: In June 1990, and in the same month: Discussion centred: this being a looser form of union than a federation.

In July 1990, the Ukrainian and Byelorussian Supreme Soviets adopted declarations of sovereignty.
('Keesing's Record of World Events', Volume 36; p. 37,616).

In November 1990:

Yeltsin responded: In January 1991, According to a referendum conducted in March 1991, In this referendum, In the Russian Federation, Yeltsin: In a broadcast on Radio Russia, he: Gorbachev's hope of signing the Union Treaty in time to present to the G7 Summit in July 1991 were frustrated when the Ukrainian government voted on 21 June 1991: Also in July 1991. Gorbachev announced The new Union Treaty was scheduled for signature on 21 August 1991.

The Attempted Coup : August 1991

ON THE MORNING OF 19 AUGUST 1991-- THE DAY BEFORE THE NEW UNION TREATY
WAS TO BE SIGNED --LEADING MEMBERS OF THE FIRST REVISIONIST GROUPING
WITHIN THE  PARTY,  HEADED BY VICE-PRESIDENT GENNADY YANAYEV, ATTEMPTED  TO SEIZE POLITICAL POWER IN A COUP:

A statement was issued by the official Tass news agency saying that presidential authority had been transferred to Vice President Gennady Yanayev, and that: Among the named members of the 'State Committee for the State of Emergency' (SCSE) were Gennady Yanayev (Vice-President), Valentin Pavlov (Prime  Minister), Vladimir Kryuchkov (Chairman of the KGB), Marshal Dmitri Yazov (Minister of Defence) and Boris Pugo (Minister of Internal Affairs). ('Keesing's Record of World Events', Volume 37; p. 38,368-69).

At a press conference he gave on 21 August after the collapse of the coup, Gorbachev asserted that a delegation:

The Committee's statements: but declared that the coup had been carried out to prevent the: Observers concluded: A statement by Anatoly Lukyanov, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, dated  the same day, declaring that it:   The Failure of the Coup (August 1991)

However,

and Indeed, a key factor in the failure of the coup was: headed  by Air Force Commander Yevgeny Shaposhnikov and Air Force Paratroops Commander Pavel Grachev,  both of whom were adherents of the third grouping (Yeltsin) and: The coup was strongly opposed by the second (Gorbachev) and third (Yeltsin) intra-Party groupings.  The personal opposition of  Yeltsin was particularly strong; he: On 20.August, there were: Thus, on the morning of 21 August: As a result: Later the same day: That evening Gorbachev was permitted to return to Moscow. On 22 August, the KGB Collegium issued a statement saying: The Aftermath of the Coup (August/September 1991)

THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE ATI'EMPTED COUP AND ITS FAILURE LED TO A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN THE THREE OPPOSITION  SUB-GROUPINGS.

THE FIRST (YANAYEV/LIGACHEV) GROUPING HAD BEEN DECISIVELY DEFEATED,
WHILE THE SECOND (GORBACHEV) SUB-GROUPING HAD BEEN VERY SIGNIFICANTLY WEAKENED:

Indeed, Gorbachev was forced to: and: As early as 21 August, Yeltsin: On August 21 and 22: On 23 August: On 22 August,: at the RSFSR Supreme Soviet on the same day, Gorbachev was compelled to agree: while  The Liquidation of the Soviet Union (August/September, 1991)

 On 24 August, Gorbachev:

At an Extraordinary Session of the USSR Supreme Soviet on 26 August, On 28 August: Also on 28 August, On 29 August, By the end of August, These events: In September/October 1991, the 5th Extraordinary Congress of People's Deputies met and: In the same month, In October 1991, The congress: In November 1991, a new Russian government was announced, Also in November 1991, Russian President Boris Yeltsin: In the same month, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation: and at a meeting of the State Council: After the meeting, On 7-8 December 1991,  the Presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (formerly Belorussia) held a secret meeting in Minsk (Belarus): The meeting: Yeltsin secured the approval of the US government for the decision, which was, as US President George Bush remarked: but Soviet Prestient Mikhail Gorbachev was not informed.  As US Secretary of State James Baker said in a televised interview: When Gorbachev was eventually informed, he described the decision taken as: The Minsk meeting issued a statement saying: The Formation of the 'Commonweakth of Independent States' December 1991

On 8 December 1991, at their meeting in Minsk, the three Slav republics (Russia, Ukraine and Belarus),

This would be: On 21 December 1991, The Alma Ata declaration Assurances: On 25 December 1991, and: The Russian Federation: On 26 December 1991, CONCLUSION

 IT IS SOMETIMES SAID THAT THE LIQUIDATION OF THE SOVIET UNION IN DECEMBER
1991-- SEVENTY-FOUR YEARS AFTER THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION OF NOVEMBER 1917  -DEMONSTRATES THE FAILURE OF SOCIALISM AND THE FAILURE OF MARXISM-LENINISM.

BUT IT WAS NOT A SOCIALIST SOCIETY WHICH WAS LIQUIDATED IN 1991.
AS HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED IN THIS BOOK, THAT HAD BEEN ACCOMPLISHED MANY YEARS BEFORE UNDER KHRUSHCHEV AND BREZHNEV.

WHAT WAS LIQUIDATED IN DECEMBER 1991 WAS A CAPITALIST  SYSTEM MASQUERADING AS 'SOCIALISM',  BUT WITH ALL THE SOCIAL EVILS
INHERENT IN ANY CAPITALIST SOCIETY.
THE LEADERS OF THE SOVIET UNION FROM 1953 ONWARDS WERE NOT MARXIST-LENINISTS BUT REVISIONISTS -- CAPITALIST  POLITICIANS MASQUERADING AS 'SOCIALISTS'.

THE  STRENGTH  OF  SOCIALISM  AS IT EXISTED UNDER LENIN AND STALIN IS DEMONSTRATED  BY THE FAILURE OF ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY SOCIALIST RUSSIA OPENLY IN THE  WARS OF INTERVENTION AND TO DESTROY THE SOCIALIST SOVIET UNION OPENLY IN THE NAZI INVASION OF THE 1940s.

INDEED, THE FACT THAT THOSE WHO ULTIMATELY BROUGHT ABOUT THE LIQUIDATION OF THE  SOVIET UNION COULD ONLY DO SO BY PRETENDING TO  BE  'SOCIALISTS' AND 'MARXIST-LENINISTS' TESTIFIES TO  THE  STRENGTH OF  SOCIALISM  AND  MARXISM-LENINISM, NOT TO ITS WEAKNESS.

THE  FACT IT TOOK ALMOST FORTY YEARS OF THIS PSEUDO-SOCIALIST CAPITALISM, BEFORE  ITS  AUTHORS FELT IT SAFE TO ATTACK SOCIALISM OPENLY IS SIMILARLY  A
TESTIMONY TO THE STRENGTH OF SOCIALISM.

HISTORY SHOWS THAT THE CHANGE FROM ONE SOCIAL SYSTEM TO A MORE PROGRESSIVE ONE, IS OFTEN NOT MERELY A LONG PROCESS, BUT A  PROCESS INTERRUPTED BY ONE OR MORE STEPS BACKWARD.

THE  PEOPLES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION ARE LEARNING BITTER LESSONS  FROM THE BACKWARD STEP TAKEN BY THEIR COUNTRY:

FIRSTLY, THAT ADHERENCE TO THE  PRINCIPLES OF  MARXISM-LENINISM, AND
REJECTION OF ALL REVISIONIST DEVIATIONS FROM THOSE PRINCIPLES, IS  ESSENTIAL FOR THE WORKING CLASS OF ALL COUNTRIES;

SECONDLY, THAT THE WAY FORWARD FOR THE WORKING PEOPLE OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION IS TO REBUILD A GENUINE MARXIST-LENINIST FREE OF ALL REVISIONIST TRENDS, TO WIN FOR THAT PARTY THE LEADERSHIP OF THE WORKING CLASS,  AND  TO  CARRY THROUGH A NEW SOCIALIST REVOLUTION WHICH WILL TAKE  FULLY INTO ACCOUNT THE LESSONS OF HISTORY.

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