The War Against the Working Class
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Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Russia, to 1927
Tsarist Russia
World War One
A popular revolution
The war of intervention, 1918-21
Socialism in one country
Threats of war
Chapter 2 The Soviet Union from 1927 to 1933
The need to collectivise
The First Five-Year Plan ⠀㤀㈀㠀ⴀ㌀㌀)
Social progress
Expanding education and science
A new working class
Ukraine
The Second Five-Year Plan ⠀㤀㌀㈀ⴀ㌀㜀)
Developing Central Asia
‘An unexampled achievement’
Chapter 3 Towards world war
Threats of war
Fifth columns
World war
Hitler attacks Poland
Chapter 4 World War Two
Genocide
Active defence
Soviet arms production
Allies
Collaborators
Chapter 5 Stalingrad and victory
Stalingrad, the battle that saved the world
Goebbels tells a lie
The battle of Kursk and Operation Bagration
The struggle for Warsaw
The Yalta Conference and after
‘The greatest military achievement in all history’
Schemes for a new world war
Chapter 6 The Soviet Union from 1945 to 1986
Still under threat
Rebuilding, again
Khrushchev
After Khrushchev
Chapter 7 Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1989
Rebuilding
Yugoslavia: a different path
Threats of counter-revolution
Chapter 8 China
Feudal China
The 1949 revolution
Tibet
Development
Natural disasters and recovery
More threats of war
Rapid growth
Counter-revolution
Chapter 9 Korea
The war against Korea
Still no peace
Chapter 10 Vietnam and South-East Asia
Colonial wars
Vietnam’s victory
The US government attacks Vietnam
The British and US governments support the coup in Indonesia
US war crimes in Vietnam
Vietnam’s victory
Sugar-coated bullets
Chapter 11 Cuba, to 1990
Batista’s dictatorship
Revolution in 1959
Social progress
Internationalism
Chapter 12 The Soviet Union - counter-revolution and catastroika
Afghanistan
Counter-revolution
Catastroika
Central Asia
US and EU governments stir up trouble
Chapter 13 Eastern Europe – counter-revolution and war
Yugoslavia under attack
Counter-revolutions
The Belarus exception
Ukraine: counter-revolution and war
Chapter 14 Cuba, the Special Period – workers in control
The Special Period, 1990-2010
Internationalism
Working class democracy
People’s Power
Defending the revolution
Social progress
The battle of ideas and the future
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1 Russia, to 1927
Chapter 2 The Soviet Union from 1927 to 1939
Chapter 3 Towards world war
Chapter 4 World War Two
Chapter 5 Stalingrad and victory
Chapter 6 The Soviet Union from 1945 to 1986
Chapter 7 Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1989
Chapter 8 China
Chapter 9 Korea
Chapter 10 Vietnam and South-East Asia
Chapter 11 Cuba, to 1990
Chapter 12 The Soviet Union - counter-revolution and catastroika
Chapter 13 Eastern Europe – counter-revolution and war
Chapter 14 Cuba, the Special Period – workers in control
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