Literature

NOVANEWS Maurice Thorez 1960 Source: Fils du Peuple, Editions Sociales, Paris, 1970; Translated: for marxists.org by Mitchell Abidor; CopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) marxists.org 2004. In 1950 Thorez suffered a stroke. He went to the Soviet Union to recover, and was there until April 1953, a month after Stalin’s death. At Barvikhs, and then during my stay on the banks of the Black Sea, I several times received the unexpected visit of Stalin, with whom I conversed in Russian. Stalin worried about the care I was receiving, about my food. One day he said to me: “the cook prepares French meals for you: grilled meats? many vegetables? This is good. You should also drink a little wine” (the doctors had forbidden this). And he told me that during his adventurous life as...

NOVANEWS Shibdas Ghosh An open letter to Comrade Khrushchev and other comrades abroad Source: Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) (used with kind permission) Date: November 16-18, 1961 First published March 1, 1962 HTML Markup: Salil Sen for marxists.org September, 2007 Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2007). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source. Evaluation of Comrade Stalin after Khrushchev had usurped the leadership of the CPSU and the state and had denigrated Stalin in the name of fighting out the cult of personality. Comrade Khrushchev 1 And Other Comrades Abroad Dear Comrades, The Twentieth Congress of the CPSU under the leadership of Comra...

NOVANEWS Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung April 5, 1956 [Extracted from the People's Daily editorial of 5th April, 1956.] After Lenin's death Stalin as the chief leader of the Party and the state creatively applied and developed Marxism-Leninism. In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism against its enemies - the Trotskyites, Zinovievities and other bourgeois agents - Stalin expressed the will and wishes of the people and proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter. The reason Stalin won the support of the Soviet people and played an important role in history was primarily that he, together with the other leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, brought about the triumph of socialism in the Soviet Union and created the conditions for the victory of the Sov...

NOVANEWS Paul Robeson Originally Published: New World Review, April, 1953 Transcription: Marxist-Leninist Translations and Reprints HTML Markup: Brian Reid Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2008). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source. There is no richer store of human experience than the folk tales, folk poems and songs of a people. In many, the heroes are always fully recognizable humans—only larger and more embracing in dimension. So it is with the Russian, Chinese. and the African folk-lore. In 1937, a highly expectant audience of Moscow citizens—workers, artists, youth, farmers from surrounding towns—crowded the Bolshoy Theater. They awaited a p...

NOVANEWS Jawaharlal Nehru Source: Labour Monthly, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, April 1953. Publisher: The Proprietors, Trinity Trust, 134, Ballards Lane, London, N3 Transcription/Markup: Brian Reid Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2007). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source. WHEN we think of Marshal Stalin, a panorama of the history of the last 35 years passes before our eyes. All of us here are the children of this age and have been affected by it in many ways. We have grown up not only participating in our own struggles in this country but, in another way, with the mighty struggles that have taken place in this world, and we have been affected by them. And ...

NOVANEWS James Klugmann Source: Labour Monthly, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, April 1953. Publisher: The Proprietors, Trinity Trust, 134, Ballards Lane, London, N3 Transcription/Markup: Brian Reid Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2007). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source. AS we mourn the death of the world’s greatest working-class leader, we receive a magnificent gift and guide for those fighting in Britain in the cause of socialism—the first volume, in English, of Stalin’s Collected Works[1]. This is a contribution of the very first order to the publication in the English language of the classics of creative Marxism; an outstanding event in the spread of Mar...

NOVANEWS William Gallacher Source: Labour Monthly, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, April 1953. Publisher: The Proprietors, Trinity Trust, 134, Ballards Lane, London, N3 Transcription/Markup: Brian Reid Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2007). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source. THE people of the Soviet Union, the progressive forces and the Peace Movement throughout the world have suffered an irreparable loss through the death of our great and well-beloved Comrade Joseph Stalin. In the first decade of this century we read often in the columns of Justice and in our monthly magazines of the activities of the Russian Social Democrats, particularly so during the 1905...

NOVANEWS R. Palme Dutt Notes of the Month Source: Labour Monthly, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, April, 1953. Published: The Proprietors Trinity Trust, 134 Ballards Lane, London, N3. Transcription/Markup: Brian Reid Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2007). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source. ‘Our task is to transform sorrow into strength.’—MAO TSE TUNG, March 10, 1953.  THE genius and will of Stalin, the architect of the rising world of free humanity, lives on for ever in the imperishable monument of his creation—the soaring triumphs of socialist and communist construction; the invincible array of states and peoples who have thrown off the bonds of the ex...

NOVANEWS W. E. B. Du Bois Originally Published: National Guardian, March 16, 1953 Transcription: Marxist-Leninist Translations and Reprints HTML Markup: Brian Reid Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2008). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source. Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also—and...

NOVANEWS C. Allen Book Review Source: The Communist Review, January 1950 Publisher: Communist Party of Great Britain Transcription: Marxist-Leninist Translations and Reprints HTML Markup: Brian Reid Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2009). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Stalin, A Political Biography By Isaac Deutscher Oxford University Press, 25s. Recently the Oxford University Press published a bulky biography of Stalin by a well-known political journalist of the Economist. Mr. Deutscher, the author, is concerned with politics, and he called his book, therefore, “a political biography.” It is important to see what is the political aim of this bulky volume. In the present international situation, i...