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London: Ink Links, 1979. — 580 p. — ISBN: 090613322X; 9780906133224. Part one transl. by Fernand G. Fernier and Anne Cliff, part two transl. by Margaret and Hugo Dewar.The book details Ciliga’s time spent in Soviet Prisons and ‘isolators’ following his arrest for belonging to the Trotskyist Opposition, and provides a wealth of important documentary information concerning the miserable conditions in which the working class were reduced to living in, the extent of the ‘criminalisation’ of large swathes of the population, and the various forms in which resistance appeared. What is equally important however, is the intellectual development Ciliga underwent during his time in Russia. He entered The USSR as an ardent Bolshevik, yet he was forced by the pressure of the reality of the situation to recognise that something, somewhere, had gone very wrong. This led him to the Trotskyist Opposition. His time amongst Trotskyist prisoners, however, convinced Ciliga that “Their outlook was not very different to that of the Stalinist Bureaucracy; they were slightly more polite and human, that was all” – indeed Stalin’s Five Year Plans of forced collectivisation and industrialisation were taken directly from the Program of the Opposition. In essence all the Trotskyists wished for was a change of personel at the top of the Soviet State – they thought they could do Stalinism better than Stalin. This realisation of the poverty of the ‘loyal opposition’ led Ciliga to ultimately question even the basis of Bolshevism itself – the thought and practice of Lenin – “The holy of holies.” He realised that Leninism has no conception of working class self-activity, and is in fact a parasite on the back of the workers, using them to gain its own ends. The equation of Communism with nationalisation demonstrates the lack of any real difference between Stalinism, Trotskyism or Leninism – they are all predicated on the idea of State ownership of the means of production not the self-activity of the working class itself. Ciliga recognised the paucity of this vision and that he had to reject Lenin if he wished to remain a revolutionary. To his eternal credit and despite the anguish it caused him, he took this step.ContentsForewordIn the land of the disconcerting lieRussia and her enigmasFirst Shocks.
Is All Lost?.
Peasants And Manual Workers: What They ThinkThe turmoil of the Five year planA World Runs Off The Rails
Farewell, Hopes And Illusions!
In The Caucasus
Return To Moscow
The Comintern In Yugoslavia
I Leave Moscow
In Leningrad
The Year Of The Great Crisis
The Workers And The Five Year Plan
The Dominant Class And Its True Visage
The Opposition In MoscowThe OutcastsAt School In Soviet Prisons
Imprisoned In Leningrad
On The Road To Exile
Verkhne-Uralsk
Political Life In Prison
A Hunger-Strike. .
Political Repression In The U.S.S.R.
And Now?
Lenin, Also
The First Terrorists Trials Against The Communists
Towards DepartureSiberia: Land of exile, land of industrializationFrom The Urals To The Pacific
Irkutsk Idyll
Provincial Soviet Life
Room No. 14
The Masters Of The Land
And The Days Pass
Psychology Of A Communist
The Road Of "6001 Graves"
In The Kingdom Of The Soviet Trust
Farewell, Russia; Farewell Hard, Young Land
Is All Lost?.
Peasants And Manual Workers: What They ThinkThe turmoil of the Five year planA World Runs Off The Rails
Farewell, Hopes And Illusions!
In The Caucasus
Return To Moscow
The Comintern In Yugoslavia
I Leave Moscow
In Leningrad
The Year Of The Great Crisis
The Workers And The Five Year Plan
The Dominant Class And Its True Visage
The Opposition In MoscowThe OutcastsAt School In Soviet Prisons
Imprisoned In Leningrad
On The Road To Exile
Verkhne-Uralsk
Political Life In Prison
A Hunger-Strike. .
Political Repression In The U.S.S.R.
And Now?
Lenin, Also
The First Terrorists Trials Against The Communists
Towards DepartureSiberia: Land of exile, land of industrializationFrom The Urals To The Pacific
Irkutsk Idyll
Provincial Soviet Life
Room No. 14
The Masters Of The Land
And The Days Pass
Psychology Of A Communist
The Road Of "6001 Graves"
In The Kingdom Of The Soviet Trust
Farewell, Russia; Farewell Hard, Young Land
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