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Why the death penalty must be banned
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Why the death penalty must be banned

If we reason superficially, drawing conclusions under the influence of fleeting emotions and anger, the ...

Direct or representative democracy?
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Direct or representative democracy?

It is sometimes assumed that direct democracy is a more democratic, more “left-wing” system than ...

Why planned economies are inefficient
Why planned economies are inefficient

Socialists, having achieved successes in some sectors of public life in Soviet Russia (and committing ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Privileges of the soviet nomenklatura
Privileges of the soviet nomenklatura

Thanks to the efforts of the remnants of the former propaganda apparatus of the Communist ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Russia is still ruled by the nomenklatura
Russia is still ruled by the nomenklatura

In today’s Russia, there is very little awareness that the nomenklatura created by Joseph Stalin, ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Joseph Stalin’s coup d’état
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Joseph Stalin’s coup d’état

If someone had claimed back in 1922 that Joseph Stalin would become the leader of ...

Nomenklatura as a of exploiters
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Nomenklatura as a class of exploiters

When jokes began to appear that “capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, and ...

“Nomenklatura privileges are not inherited”
“Nomenklatura privileges are not inherited”

Defenders of Stalin’s system of socialism often list among its supposed advantages the claim that ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

What is the nomenklatura
What is the nomenklatura

In our view, the failure to acknowledge the shortcomings of the USSR or to justify ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Myths About Social Democrats
Myths About Social Democrats

Russia is a country with an exceptionally high concentration of myths about social democrats, largely ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

“There Was No Corruption Under Stalin”
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“There Was No Corruption Under Stalin”

The conclusion that there was no corruption under Joseph Stalin is often drawn from the ...

What Is Social Democracy?
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What Is Social Democracy?

We have arrived at the core question our journal seeks to address: what is social ...

What is Stalinism
What is Stalinism

What is stalinism? Communist sources that do not criticize Joseph Stalin’s personality often argue that ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

How Marxism Became Outdated
How Marxism Became Outdated

It remains popular to view Marxism as a theory that exposed human exploitation by humans, ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Progressive Values and Social Democracy
Progressive Values and Social Democracy

Any political movement fights for its system of values, which forms the foundation of its ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov