Without this propaganda, the West-European, and consequently the Russian proletariat, is lost. And the same holds true of the Executive in Moscow. Whilst I was writing these last few pages, the news ...

Such a formulation naturally excluded even the mention of any struggle on the part of the Russian proletariat for the seizure of power until the more highly developed countries had set a ...

Revolution in Russia would have to be made by the urban proletariat and the rural proletariat of the poorest peasants, led by professional revolutionaries who understood what was going on.

The Mensheviks held that Russia must first undergo a prolonged period of capitalist development before the socialist revolution was possible. They concluded therefore that the proletariat had to ...

Under Lenin's leadership, Russia essentially withdrew from Europe ... use surplus capital to improve the living standards of the proletariat. Therefore, capitalist societies would remain unevenly ...

Viv Groskop gathers some of the best Soviet satire and proletariat punchlines. When I was interviewing Russians for the documentary It's Just a Joke, Comrade: 100 Years of Russian Satire ...