How did 'democratic centralism' become 'democratic centralism'? Lars T Lih looks at the changing use of the phrase by the Bolsheviks Vladimir Nevsky (1876-1937) lived the life (in the words of an ...

Eduard Martynovich Dune, a member of the opposition group "Democratic centralism". For his opposition activities he was arrested and spent many years in Vorkuta. Fled during the Second World war.

A major sticking point in the debate between Anarchists and Marxists has been the issue of centralism; that is to what degree specialized, hierarchical, concentrated divisions of labor are desirable.

In his book, “Revolution 1989-The fall of the Soviet Empire”, Victor Sebestyen, describes what happened in the Eastern and Central European communist countries ruled completely by their master, the ...

Jeremy Cronin writes (July 20) that the “key achievement” of the South African Communist Party was to rethink the communist project. The seminal work in this regard was Joe Slovo’s Has Socialism ...

John Robb contends that the worsening global economic crisis is in part due to an overcentralization of economic decision-making. Excerpt: The idea is simple. That capitalism, as it works today is ...

I would like to bring to your readership’s attention that in 1998, when I gave up my seat as a PPP parliamentarian and resigned from the PPP, calling publicly for reforms in our constitution and new ...

An amendment that allows Chinese President Xi Jinping to stay in power for life passed the National People’s Congress with 99.8 percent of the vote. Of the 2,964 delegates, only 2 voted against the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of last week’s big stories was about Riven Vincent, the mother of a disabled child struggling to get extra ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdistan Region Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani on Wednesday said that centralism “will not work” in Iraq because of the diversity of the country, adding that equitable ...