{"id":27029,"date":"2026-02-26T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=27029"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:29:00","slug":"27029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=27029","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One of the last articles Stalin ever read was A. A. Poletaev&#8217;s &#8218;V. I. Lenin and the American Workers Movement&#8216;, published in a 1952 issue of <em>Voprosy Istorii<\/em> (Questions of History) devoted to Lenin.<\/p>\n<p>Poletaev&#8217;s article seems to have been the only one that Stalin read in that issue of the journal and the first passage he marked was a 1907 citation from Lenin on the characteristics of the &#8218;Anglo-American workers&#8216; movement&#8216;. There were four, and Stalin, as he often did, went to the trouble of numbering them: the fact that the proletariats of these two countries had no important social-national democratic tasks to fulfil; the complete subordination of the proletariat to bourgeois policy; the sectarianism and isolation of the socialist movement; and the lack of support for the left in elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Geoffrey Roberts, <em>Stalin&#8217;s Library<\/em>, (London: Yale University Press, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2022), 169-170<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the last articles Stalin ever read was A. A. Poletaev&#8217;s &#8218;V. I. Lenin and the American Workers Movement&#8216;, published in a 1952 issue of Voprosy Istorii (Questions of History) devoted to Lenin. Poletaev&#8217;s article seems to have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=27029\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}