About a novel by Tariq Ali. Broken Mirrors: the revolutionary experience in the face of the crisis of the Soviet model

Abstract

In July 1937, one of the main agents of the Soviet secret services in Western Europe, “Ludwik” – pseudonym of Ignace Reiss, Polish Jew, member of the Communist Party of Poland since 1919 –, decided to publicly break with Stalinist power. Encouraged by the Moscow Processes, he sent a letter of resignation to the central committee of the Communist Party of the USSR, in which he also announced his membership in Leon Trotsky's Fourth International.