CONTENTS

No Force Can Quench the Flames Lit Forty Years Ago by Russia's Workers and Peasants How They Took Power in Petrograd Leaders of the Revolution William Hunter Honest, Realistic, Disciplined, Democratic: That was Lenin's Bolshevik Party George Cunvin The Soviets—Reality and Caricature Michael Banda Why and How the Bureaucracy Arose Robert Andrews The Bolshevik Resistance to Stalinism (1923-28)

Robert Hunter The Purgers and the Purged Don Renton The Red Army: Mirror of Soviet Society Joseph Hansen The Communist International and Soviet Foreign Policy Tony Guthrie The Soviet Union and the ‘People’s Democracies’

Joseph Clark An American Journalist in Moscow Kamini Meedeniya The October Revolution and the Peoples of the East Tom Kemp The Giant Strides of Russia’s Planned Industry a1 George |. Lormin Unsolved Problems of Kolkhoz Agriculture Hyman Levy Soviet Philosophers in the Doldrums J. H. Bradley Secrecy, Mistakes and Crimes Have Not Stopped Science Forging Ahead in the USSR A Socialist Doctor Hard-won, if Undramatic, Medical Successes Beatrix Tudor-Hart Theories and Practice of Soviet Psychologists John Daniels Advanced Education Will Destroy Stalinist Mysticism 220) Paul Hogarth The Future of Soviet Fine Arts Depends on the Lopatkins’ Struggle Paul Simon Soviet Architecture is Not Yet Socialist Architecture Jerry Dawson Heroes, Cult and Spectacle on the Soviet Screen Bernard Stevens Great Performances, but Few Creative Minds Donald Veall Soviet Law and the Struggle for Civil Liberties “996 John Peters How the Revolution Was Presented to the Readers of the Yorkshire Post CHRONOLOGY ‘BIBLIOGRAPHY 23] ;

MARTIN GRAINGER is an active participant in the matician, author of many popular books on science and secialist forum movement... WILLIAM HUNTER was dialectical materialism ... J. H. BRADLEY is a physicist, the editorial board of Socialist Outlook and was expelled at present working in Canada .-.. A SOCIALIST DOCTOR from thé Laboun,)Party for supporting that paper... . recently left the Communist Party and joined the Labour GEORGE CUNVIN has been an active member of the Party; he is a general practitioner .. . BEATRIX TUDORLsbour Party for 22 years .. . MICHAEL BANDA is a HART is a teacher. wrote ‘Toys, Play and Discipline in printer a Labour Party member . . . ROBERT Childhood” and has been principal of a progressive school ANDREWS is an economist and an active member of the . . JOHN DANIELS, son of a North Staffordshire collier, Labour Party . ROBERT HUNTER is an is lecturer in charge of research at Nottingham University Edinburgh botanist who joined the Communist Party Institute of Education. He edits Labour Review .. . PAUL 1942 and resigned in 1957... . DON RENTON fought HOGARTH is a graphic artist. He visited the USSR in = the British Battalion of the International Brigade, was a 1954 and in June 1957... BERNARD STEVENS is Proleader of the unemployed workers’ movement. then worked fessor of Composition at the Royal College of Music, com-time for the Communist Party in Edinburgh till his poser of concert works and films, author of the section on resignation this year . . . JOSEPH HANSEN is a prominent Soviet music in the recent book ‘European Music of the American socialist, secretary to the late Leon Trotsky . . . 20th Century’: he was a member of the Communist Party TONY GUTHRIE is the name under which a prominent from 1941 to October 1956 . . . FERRY DAWSON has been smember of the Communist Party writes for The Newsletter secretary of Merseyside Unity Theatre for the last twenty em eastern European affairs .. . JOSEPH CLARK recently years . - DONALD VEALL is a lawyer. active in the resigned from the foreign editor's desk at the New York movement for making the Society for Cultural Relations Daily Worker and from the U.S. Communist Party after 28 with the USSR do its job ... PAUL SIMON is a young sears) membership - . KAMINI MEEDENIYA is a architect: a member of the Communist Party since 1947, he Ceylonese biologist . . . TOM KEMP teaches economics at was a ‘critic—especially of Soviet architecture—before the Hall University ... GEORGE I. LORMIN is a Yorkshire Khrushchev speech . . . JOHN PETERS is a teacher of fermer . . . HYMAN LEVY is a philosopher and mathescience. a. member of the Labour Party since 1948.