This is the first English translation of a historic document, secretly prepared in 1932 by M.N. Ryutin (1890-1937), a veteran Bolshevik, and his colleagues, under the aegis of the Union of Marxists-Leninists, an “Organization for the Defence of Marxism-Leninism.” The document, which is a devastating critique of the Stalinist model of Soviet socialism and highlights the importance of restoration of Leninist norms in Soviet political life, is ...
