Internationalist Communist Union | Workers of the world, unite!

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Introduction

The context of the October Revolution

The Bolsheviks and the retreat of the working class

The revolution under siege

The social origins of the bureaucracy

Lenin's death opens a succession crisis

Was the bureaucracy a new ruling class?

Stalin's dictatorship, a shield for the bureaucracy against the proletariat

The internal evolution of the bureaucracy

Khrushchev's reforms and the backlash