Socialist History

The Intergovernmental Agreements with Cuba were signed on 5 May 1978 by Czechoslovakia and on 19 April 1980 by Hungary. Officially, they constituted one of the forms of scientific and technological cooperation, as the project involved, besides the temporary employment of Cubans in Czechoslovak and Hungarian companies, also their...

Pictured: Charles Debarge, one of the saboteurs that we lost....

Will Podmore’s The War Against the Working Class, page 138:...

Subsequent visual arts bolseiros included Pais Ernesto Shikani (1934–2010) and Samate Machava (1939–2012), who in 1982 both undertook six‐month fine art courses in Moscow. Dias Machlate (b. 1958) followed, spending six years studying art in Dresden from 1983, along with another Mozambican artist, Francisco Maria Conde (b....

Whilst the symbolism of tourism to Cuba was more important than its actual statistical impact, it is revealing to compare the GDR to Western European trends in this regard. Only a fraction of GDR holidays were taken outside of Europe. This was, however, part of a broader global pattern: in 1989, the percentage of West European...

Pictured: Colonel Grigori Shtern (left) Marshal Khorloogiin Choibalsan (centre), and General Georgy Zhukov (right), dated 1939....

Quoting the 1982 report, featured in page 431 of this book:...

It was on March 7, 1921 that a collection of miners established a dictatorship of the proletariat in Istria, partly in response to Fascist violence, and partly in response to the inadequate working conditions. Sadly, it only lasted one month before the authorities forcibly shut it down....

No amount of managerial reform or incentives will bring Soviet yields up to U.S. levels because the climate and geography of the Soviet Union will not permit it. Nevertheless, contrary to the implications of Western critics the steady increase in Soviet yields has been quite respectable (Shaffer 1990:4 and Table I). On a sown...

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We are sure of representing the majority of the population, of representing the most essential interests of the majority of the Italian people; proletarian violence is thus progressive and cannot be systematic. Your violence is systematic and systematically arbitrary because you represent a minority destined to disappear. We...

Pictured: A Red Army soldier in Berlin distributing food to German women at a soup kitchen....

Just six years ago, when there were rumors that Stalin was dead, was dying or was going to the United States for a serious operation, the Associated Press Moscow correspondent—then Charles P. Nutter—wrote asking him for the truth....

This is from an email that Grover C. Furr (whom many consider a ‘pro‐Soviet’ historian) sent to me in January 2020:...