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 ...

It is in effect proof positive that the autocracy of the Tsar has only been exchanged for that of the dregs of the Russian proletariat. It appears that the Soviet are anxious to show that the ...

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.

When he chanced upon a waitress who had read his plays, he declared that the Russian proletariat was better educated than the British. When he was shown a church that was still intact after the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ceramicist Claire Curneen tells the strange story of Russian revolutionary porcelain. The slogan around the outside of this plate reads “Proletariat of all the world unite”. Again, it was made ...