Kollontai .:. The Workers Opposition

Kollontai, Alexandra,
The Workers Opposition. London: Solidarity, 36 Seiten mit Abbildungen. Kartoniert / geheftet. 4to. 112 g

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* Solidarity (London) Pamphlet; 7
Bestell-Nr.153528

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Kollontai | Russland | Sowjetunion | Soziale Bewegungen

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Alexandra Kollontai's text The Workers Opposition was written in Russian, during the early weeks of 1921. It was an attempt to give a more detailed justification to the Theses on the Trade Union Question, submitted by the Workers' Opposition for discussion at the 10th Congress (March 1921) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (The Theses themselves were published in Pravda on January 25, 1921). The document was published in England almost immediately, in Sylvia Pankhurst's Workers' Dreadnought (April 22 - August 19, 1921) and reprinted in Chicago later that year. In Russia, it was circulated at the 10th Congress, but banned immediately afterwards has part of the outlawing of the Workers' Opposition), following the ban on organised factions which had been voted at that Congress.
Solidarity republished Kollontars text in 1961. The publication aroused considerable interest (as judged by sales) but little comment at the tine. Translations appeared in several languages.
Destalinization, Hungary '56, Czechoslovakia `68 and the spread of left-communist ideas in the wake of the student unrest of the '60s all contributed to the debate on the nature of the Soviet state more vigorous and important. Hence a second edition in 1968, and now a third one.

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