JAWAHARLAL  NEHRU'S

 GLIMPSES OF WORLD HISTORY

           INDEX  LINKS  TO  GREAT  CHAPTERS

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  MAHAVIRA & BUDHHA ( 600 BC)

              ASHOKA           

  SOUTH INDIA AFTER ASHOKA

 JESUS AND CHRISTIANITY 

 ARABS AND ISLAM

 HARSHA VARDHANA



VIJAYANAGAR AND KRUSHNADEVA RAYA

https://sites.google.com/site/rsrpages/nehrus-glimpses-of-world-history/vijayanagar



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REAWAKENING OF INDIA

  VITALITY OF SANSKRIT  

   (this  is from Nehru's Discovery of India)

(SIR WILLIAM  JONES LIFE SKETCH & CONTRIBUTION

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(philologist)

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SOME FAMOUS WRITERS-

by-

NEHRU  


  

  MARX  AND ENGELS    

   THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO  

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           MARX AND   ENGELS

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NEHRU 

ON 

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

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1

RUSSIA UNDER THE CZARS

2

PASSING AWAY OF TSARDOM IN RUSSIA

3

1905 REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA THAT FAILED  

RSR - 1905 REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA THAT FAILED (google.com) 

4

BOLSHEVIKS  SEIZE  POWER

RSR - BOLSHEVIKS SEIZE POWER (google.com) 


5

BOLSHEVIKS  DEFEAT  THE  IMPERIALIST INTERVENTION AND WIN THE  CIVIL  WAR

RSR - THE SOVIETS WIN THROUGH (google.com) 

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' NEHRU ON  TROTSKY-STALIN IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE 

AND  

ABOUT THE GREAT  ACHIEVEMENTS OF  STALIN  IN INDUSTRIALIZING SOVIET UNION.


Soviet Russia, for the first time in history, concentrated the whole strength of the nation in a peaceful effort to build, . But the privation, especially of the upper and middle-class peasantry, was very great, and often it seemed that the whole ambitious scheme would collapse, and perhaps carry the Soviet Government with it. It required immense courage to hold on. Many prominent Bolsheviks thought that the strain and suffering caused by the agricultural programme were too great and there should be a relaxation. 

But not so Stalin. Grimly and silently he held on. He was no talker: he hardly spoke in public. He seemed to be the iron image of an inevitable fate going ahead to the predestined goal. And something of his courage and determination spread among the members of the Communist Party and other workers in Russia.....read  more here 


    STALIN

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https://sites.google.com/site/rsrpages/Home/nehruji-on-usa/roosevelt-to-the-rescue

 NEHRU ON ROOSVELT AND  NEW  DEAL

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NEHRU  ON  THE  AMERICAN REVOLUTION

https://sites.google.com/site/rsrpages/nehrus-glimpses-of-world-history/nehruji-on-usa/the-american-revolution


NEHRU  ON  AMERICAN  CIVIL WAR  AND  

ABRAHAM  LINCOLN

https://sites.google.com/site/rsrpages/nehrus-glimpses-of-world-history/nehruji-on-usa/civil-war-in-usa

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NEHRU ON  THE MOSCOW TRIALS

 the reaction of the people was definitely against the opponents of Stalin"....Nehru

Read the full text here....

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THE  CRIMINALITY  OF  AMERICAN  SLAVE TRADERS 

 AS TOLD BY JAWAHARLAL  NEHRU 

read   here    CIVIL   WAR   IN       USA!

https://sites.google.com/site/rsrpages/Home/nehruji-on-usa/civil-war-in-usa

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Is Stalin a Dictator? From "Soviet Communism: A New Civilization"

by Sidney and Beatrice Webb

)Sometimes it is asserted that, whereas the form may be otherwise, the fact is that, whilst the Communist Party controls the whole administration, the Party itself, and thus indirectly the whole state, is governed by the will of a single person, Josef Stalin.

First let it be noted that, unlike Mussolini, Hitler and other modern dictators, Stalin is not invested by law with any authority over his fellow-citizens, and not even over the members of the Party to which he belongs. He has not even the extensive power which the Congress of the United States has temporarily conferred upon President Roosevelt, or that which the American Constitution entrusts for four years to every successive president...

...( READ MORE HERE!)

WEBBS ON STALIN

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NEHRU  ON  DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT.

 

DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIPS

from

Glimpses of World History

by

Jawaharlal  Nehru

"I have not included the Soviet Union in the above list of dictatorships, because the dictatorship there, although as ruthless as any other, is of a different type. It is not the dictatorship of an individual or a small group, but of a well-organized political party basing itself especially on the workers. They call it the "dictatorship of the proletariat".

Thus we have three kinds of dictatorships-the communist type, the fascist, and the military. There is nothing peculiar about the military one; it has existed from the earliest days. The communist and fascist types are new in history, and are special products of our own times.

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I have referred to democracy as "formal" in the preceding paragraph.

The communists say that it was not real democracy; it was only a democratic shell to hide the fact that one class ruled over the others. According to them, democracy covered the dictatorship of the capitalist class. It was plutocracy, government by the wealthy. The much-paraded vote given to the masses gave them only the choice of saying once, in four or five years, whether a certain person, X, might rule over them and exploit them or another person, Y, should do so. In either event the masses were to be exploited by the ruling class. Real democracy can only come when this class rule and exploitation end and only one class exists. To bring about this socialist State, however, a period of the dictatorship of the proletariat is necessary so as to keep down all capitalist intriguing against the workers’ State. In Russia, this dictatorship is exercised by the Soviets in which all the workers and peasants and other "active" elements are represented. Thus it becomes a dictatorship of the 90 per cent, or even 95 per cent, over the remaining 10 or 5 per cent. That is the theory. In practice the Communist Party controls the Soviets and the ruling clique of communists control the Party. And the dictatorship is as strict, so far as censorship and freedom of thought or action are concerned, as any other. But as it is based on the goodwill of the workers it must carry the workers with it. And, finally, there is no exploitation of the workers or any other class for the benefit of another. There is no exploiting class left. If there is any exploitation, it is done by the State for the benefit of all. Russia, it is worth remembering, never had the democratic form of government. It jumped in 1917 from autocracy to communism.

The fascist attitude is entirely different

. As I have told you in my last letter, it is not easy to find out what fascist principles are, as they are opposed to democracy there is no doubt, and their opposition is not on the communist ground that democracy is not the real article but a sham. Fascists object to the whole principle underlying the democratic idea, and they curse democracy with all the vigour at their command

Fascism is intensely nationalistic, while communism is international. Fascism actually opposes internationalism. It makes of the State a god on whose altar individual freedom and rights must be sacrificed; all other countries are alien and almost like enemies. Jews, being considered as foreign elements, all ill-treated. 

In spite of certain anti-capitalist slogans and a revolutionary technique, fascism is allied with property-owning and reactionary elements 

READ   MORE ABOUT THIS   HERE  

RSR - FASCISM (google.com) 

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NEHRU  ON STALIN

IN INDIAN PARLIAMENT

Death of Marshal Stalin

March 5, 1953

By Jawaharlal Nehru

The Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs (Shri Jawaharlal Nehru):

When we think of Marshal Stalin, all kinds of thoughts come to our minds, at least to my mind, and the panorama of history for the last 35 years passes before our eyes. All of us here are children of this age and have been affected by it in many ways. We have grown up not only participating in our struggles in this country but participating in another way with the mighty struggles that have taken place in this world, and been affected by them.

And so looking back at these 35 years or so, many figures stand out, but perhaps no single figure has moulded and affected and influenced the history of these years more than Marshal Stalin. He became gradually almost a legendary figure, sometimes a man of mystery, at other times a person who had an intimate bond not with a few but with vast numbers of persons. He proved himself great in peace and in war. He showed an indomitable will and courage which few possess, but perhaps when history comes to be written many things will be said about him and I do not know what opinions, what varying opinions, subsequent generations may record, but every one will agree that here was a man of giant stature, a man such as few who had molded the destinies of his age, a man – although he succeeded greatly in war – who ultimately would be remembered by the way he built up his great country.

Marshal Stalin was something much more than the head of a State. He was great in his own right way, whether he occupied the office or not. I believe that his influence was exercised generally in favour of peace. When war came he proved himself a very great warrior, but from all the information that we have had ,his influence had been in favour of peace.

I do not know what the future will hold, but undoubtedly even though Marshal Stalin has passed away, because of the great hold he had on peoples’ minds and even hearts, his influence and memory will continue to exercise peoples’ minds and inspire them.

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JAWAHARLAL  NEHRU  WAS  DEEPLY  INFLUENCED  BY  MARX, LENIN AND  STALIN.

WHILE  HE  WAS  IN ENGAND  FOR  STUDIES, HE  WAS  AN  ARDENT  FOLLOWER  OF  HAROLD LASKI, BERTRAND  RUSSELL, FABIAN MOVEMENT  ,SYDNEY  AND  BEATRICE  WEBB. 

SOME  OF  THE  BEST  MINDS  OF  THE  ERA  LIKE  EINSTEIN  ,  PAUL ROBESON, JBS HALDANE  WERE  HIS  FRIENDS  AND  ADMIRERS.

HE  REPRESENTED  INDIIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS  AT  THE  ANTI-IMPERIALIST  LEAGUE  IN BRUSSELS  AND  WAS  IN ASSOCIATION WITH  HO-CHI-MINH, CHOU, AND  MANY INTERNATIONAL  MARXIST  REVOLUTIONARIES.

HE  REPRESENTED  INDIAN  NATIONAL  CONGRESS  ALONG  WITH  HIS  FATHER  MOTILAL  NEHRU  AT  MOSCOW  DURING  THE  TENTH  YEAR  CELEBRATION  OF  SOVIET  UNION. 1927

READ  'HIS  AUTOBIOGRAPHY  .  WRITTEN  IN  1935

EXCERPTS  FROM  HIS  AUTOBIOGRAPHY  ARE  BEING  GIVEN  IN 

THE  FOLLOWING  SITE


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THERE  ARE  PAGES  FOR  THE  ABOVE  INTELLECTUALS  HERE

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SYDNEY  AND  BEATRICE  WEBB

SOVIET COMMUNISM - A  NEW  CIVILIZATION 

https://sites.google.com/site/rsrpages/webbs-on-stalin


GEORGE  BERNARD  SHAW   

VERY  FINE  INTRODUCTION ABOUT  BEATRICE  WEBB  BY 

BERNARD  SHAW  at

  

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BERTRAND  RUSSELL



EINSTEIN  ON  SOCIALISM

WHY  SOCIALISM 

RSR (google.com) 




LIU SHAO  CHI 

https://sites.google.com/site/rsrpages/liu-shao-chi


JBS  HALDANE

https://sites.google.com/site/rsrpages/j-b-s-haldane

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PAUL  ROBESON 


 HAROLD J.LASKI


PAUL  ROBESON  

TRIBUTE  TO  STALIN  AND  SOVIET  UNION


DU BOIS  POIGNANT  AND  BRILLIANT  HOMAGE  TO  COM.STALIN

RSR - W.E.DUBOIS ON STALIN (google.com) 

READ  ABOUT  THE  GREAT  AFRO-AMERICAN  Dr.DuBois

RSR - W.E.DUBOIS (google.com) 


HAROLD  J.LASKI  

CHAIRMAN OF  BRITISH LABOUR  PARTY  AND  PROFESSOR  IN  LONDON SCHOOL OF  ECONOMICS

PROF.LASKI,  WHO  WAS  THE  IDEOLOGICAL  INSPIRATION AND  GUIDE  TO  NEHRU THROUGHOUT

LIU-SHAO-CHI

AUTHOR  OF  GREAT  BOOKS  LIKE

HOW  TO  BE  A  GOOD  COMMUNIST,  ON  THE  PARTY, NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM

BERTRAND  RUSSELL  ON  BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

RSR - BERTRAND RUSSELL -BOOKS (google.com) 

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THERE  ARE  PAGES  FOR  THE  ABOVE  INTELLECTUALS  HERE

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SYDNEY  AND  BEATRICE  WEBB


BERTRAND  RUSSELL



EINSTEIN  ON  SOCIALISM

'WHY  SOCIALISM 

https://sites.google.com/site/rsrpages/einstein-the-marxist




LIU SHAO  CHI 



JBS  HALDANE


PAUL  ROBESON 


 HAROLD J.LASKI