Agugust 2nd, 2017 (Xinhua) – The Minister of Defence, Vladimir Padrino (C-Front), participates in a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, August 1st, 2017. Photo: Stringer/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images. All rights reserved.
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After a trip in 1920 to the revolutionary Russia, together with a group of labour unionists, the British thinker Bertrand Russell wrote a small book – The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism - that embodied his impressions of the recent Bolshevik revolution. There he raised with simplicity and anticipatory vision problems of the accumulation of power and the risks of constructing a new State religion. In a text strongly empathetic towards the daunting task, carried out by the Bolsheviks, he argued that the price of his methods was very high and that, even paying that price, the result was uncertain. In this simple reasoning lie many of the difficulties of Soviet socialism and its later evolution during the 20th century.
