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By *Chris Slee*
July 30, 2012 -- The nature of the former Soviet Union was an issue
which divided the left for many decades. Now that the Soviet Union no
longer exists, differing analyses of its class nature should no longer
be a reason for maintaining separate socialist organisations.
Nevertheless, this historical debate has relevance to current politics,
since the theories developed to explain the nature of the Soviet Union
were subsequently applied to other countries, including Cuba.
The following article takes the form of a review of books by Leon
Trotsky, Tony Cliff and Stalinist sympathiser Albert Szymanski, who
represent three different currents of thought among socialist analysts
ofthe former Soviet Union.
Full article at http://links.org.au/node/2967
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