The text that follows will be included in a new collection, Lenin’s Comintern Revisited, scheduled for publication in 2022. By John Riddell: On 11 January 1923, France and Belgium sent their armies to occupy the Ruhr region, the industrial heartland of Germany. The invaders’ stated goal was to extract the reparations payments imposed on Germany […]
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