Unlike in the US where Christmas is spotlighted, the Soviet Union emphasized the New Year as the big winter holiday. Christmas, Hanukkah, and other religion-based holidays were celebrated but the socialist state focused on New Year’s as it signified the coming of the new. In many Soviet holiday cards, we observe Ded Moroz, or Father […]
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This video describes how the Soviet Union used their banking system to fund various industries and what the overall structure of the Socialist Republic’s financial institutions were like. The Soviet Union, through the implementation of each respective five year plan, was able to allocate resources to industries based on need and growing technology at the
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Communists have long understood that art is an expression of the mode of production of a society. As such, art in the Soviet Union represented its socialist mode of production. Rather than looking from the lens of the individual, Soviet art represented the perspective of the collective. Soviet art presents itself as society with the
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In this class, the Peoples School discusses the history of Belarus after the treacherous counter-revolution of 1991 which illegally broke up the USSR. We will discuss the politics, government, Party, and the situation in Belarus during the 1990s. Visit us at:Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.usParty of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.netNew Outlook Publishers: newoutlookpublishers.store
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This year we celebrate the 107th anniversary of the socialist revolution in Russia. It was the first time that the working class anywhere in the world was able to seize and hold power. The revolution grew out of the conditions of imperialism and the First World War. Russia had been ruled by a tsar, or
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New Outlook Publishers’ works are now being produced in Serbia. This book is a slice of intensified history–history as I saw it. It does not pretend to be anything but a detailed account of the November Revolution, when the Bolsheviki, at the head of the workers and soldiers, seized the state power of Russia and
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Originally published by the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – https://fir.at/en/ The FIR recalls how 90 years ago the USSR made a contribution to strengthening the international community in an escalating international situation when it joined the League of Nations on September 18, 1934. The League of Nations, created in 1919 by the Treaty of
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On July 9th, the Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies had a showing of the pro-Soviet American film “The North Star”. Made in 1943, the film depicts a Ukrainian village and its citizens during the invasion by the Nazis and their resistance to the invaders. Visit us at:Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.usParty of Communists USA:
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Originally published by US Friends of the Soviet People – https://usfriendsofthesovietpeople.info/ Recently the US Friends of the Soviet People republished many publications from Northstar Compass, the publishing organ for the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People. Among those is a book titled Secret Documents, containing many texts from the Communist Party of
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