This presentation by Harpal Brar, former chairman of the CPGB-ML, summarises his book Perestroika, the Complete Collapse of Revisionism, which is a collection of articles written for the anti-imperialist journal Lalkar at the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse, examining the economic and political destruction of the USSR from within, initiated by Nikita Khrushchev and his followers after the death of Josef Stalin. So how was it that the same USSR collapsed as a socialist state so ignominiously, without the 20 million members of the communist party apparently lifting a finger to stop it? In 1918-21, during the war of intervention following the Great October Socialist Revolution, at a time when she was militarily and economically incomparably weaker than in 1991, the fledgling Soviet state could not be defeated by the interventionist armies of the 14 chief capitalist countries, representing the combined strength of imperialism and its stooges.ĭuring her participation in the second world war, in 1941-45, the USSR and her Red Army broke the back of the powerful Hitlerite war machine, thus making the single most powerful contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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