The Essential Trotsky (Routledge Revivals)
The Essential Trotsky (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Leon Trotsky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1317744853

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When Lenin died and the Russian Revolution began to devour its leaders, Trotsky survived longer than most as an exile in Mexico, until his assassination in 1940. The Essential Trotsky, first published in 1963, demonstrates the significance of this innovative and radical thinker’s contribution to the Bolshevik success, the magnetism of his personality, and also a certain tragic heroism discernible throughout his life. The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk was written immediately after the events it describes, when Trotsky was attending the negotiations that extracted Russia from the First World War; The Lessons of October, an answer to his opponents in 1924, matches Lenin in power of analysis; and Stalin Falsifies History, written in 1927, presents the beginning of the distorting process by which Stalin secured his position, and defeated a range of attitudes, many more benign than his own, towards the future of the Revolution. This is a fascinating reissue that will be of value to students with an interest in early-twentieth century Russia, the Russian Revolution and the writings of Trotsky more generally.

The Essential Trotsky (Routledge Revivals)
The Essential Trotsky (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Leon Trotsky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1317744861

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When Lenin died and the Russian Revolution began to devour its leaders, Trotsky survived longer than most as an exile in Mexico, until his assassination in 1940. The Essential Trotsky, first published in 1963, demonstrates the significance of this innovative and radical thinker’s contribution to the Bolshevik success, the magnetism of his personality, and also a certain tragic heroism discernible throughout his life. The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk was written immediately after the events it describes, when Trotsky was attending the negotiations that extracted Russia from the First World War; The Lessons of October, an answer to his opponents in 1924, matches Lenin in power of analysis; and Stalin Falsifies History, written in 1927, presents the beginning of the distorting process by which Stalin secured his position, and defeated a range of attitudes, many more benign than his own, towards the future of the Revolution. This is a fascinating reissue that will be of value to students with an interest in early-twentieth century Russia, the Russian Revolution and the writings of Trotsky more generally.

The Real Situation in Russia (Routledge Revivals)
The Real Situation in Russia (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Leon Trotsky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1317744713

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The Real Situation in Russia, first published in 1928, contains three of Trotsky’s harshest rebuttals of Stalin’s takeover of the Russian Revolution following the death of Lenin. The first part contains a defence of the ‘Opposition Platform’ against the Stalinist denunciation; the second details Trotsky’s view of the precise nature of the Stalinist program, as well as its disastrous consequences for Russia; and the third demonstrates the unashamed falsification of the history by Stalin with regard to the beginning of the Revolution. Including a sympathetic, but nonetheless astute, introduction to Trotsky’s argument by the translator, The Real Situation in Russia will prove to be of value to all students of twentieth-century Marxism, and in particular to those interested in the Russian Revolution – not only its origins and early development, but also, perhaps, the reasons for its ultimate failure.

Towards Socialism or Capitalism? (Routledge Revivals)
Towards Socialism or Capitalism? (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Leon Trotsky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 113624235X

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First Published in 1926, Towards Socialism or Capitalism? considers how the socialised economy of Soviet Russia, isolated in a capitalist world after Lenin’s death, faced acute dangers. Trotsky and the Left Opposition alone fought the Stalinist degeneration of the state and party apparatus which threatened to open the door to capitalist restoration. The three articles in this book, written between 1925 and 1932, discuss the fundamental problems of the Soviet economy from the New Economic Policy to forced collectivization. Published here in one volume, they are indispensable steps in the development of Trotsky’s analysis of the Soviet Union, laid down in 1936 in ‘The Revolution Betrayed’.

Trotsky
Trotsky

Author: Ian D. Thatcher

Publisher: Routledge

Published:

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780415746793

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This thoroughly revised and updated new edition of Ian D. Thatcher's Trotsky provides students with a clear and accessible introduction to the ideas and political life of Leon Trotsky, one of the key players in the Russian Revolution. Based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material, it works chronologically; from Trotsky's early life as a young revolutionary, to his rise within the Bolsheviks party, his leadership of the Red Army in the Russian Civil War 1918-20, the factures within the Communist Party surrounding the death of Vladimir Lenin and Trotsky's life in exile and assassination in 1940. Ian D. Thatcher discusses Trotsky's vision of Marxism and how his views differed from those of his comrades, Lenin and Joseph Stalin to give students an understanding of the complex theoretical side of the Russian Revolution. This new edition includes an extended historiography section in the introduction and conclusion and key thematic questions for students. This book will be essential reading for all students of modern Russia, the Russian Revolution and the history of communism.

Political Economy and Soviet Socialism (Routledge Revivals)
Political Economy and Soviet Socialism (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Alec Nove

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1136629262

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First published in 1979, Political Economy and Soviet Socialism is an integrated selection of papers written over the past 12 years of Russian history, which offers a unique insight into some important and controversial issues. Professor Nove discusses the ideas of some of the leaders of the Russian revolution (Lenin, Trotsky and Bukharin), the political economy of socialism and the problems of the contemporary USSR. The author addresses the role of traditional Russian ideas in shaping the Soviet Union’s social structure and the conceptual problems involved in defining its ruling stratum - whether or not it is a class. He also considers the criteria by which it is reasonable to judge Soviet reality, the performance and prospects of agriculture in communist-ruled Europe, the ability of the Eastern bloc to tackle problems of inflation and the obstacles to economic reform. Looking at the important and original developments of economic thought in the USSR and Eastern Europe, Professor Nove dissects the ideas of the ‘new leftists’ concerning the role of market forces under a feasible socialism. These papers offer essential reading for students of politics, economics and comparative social structure.

Socialism, Economics and Development (Routledge Revivals)
Socialism, Economics and Development (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Alec Nove

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1136582665

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First published in 1986, this text brings together a selection of papers written by the great Alec Nove on development economics, Marxist economies, the Soviet economy, and law and politics in the Soviet Union. Reflecting the varied and diverse interests of its distinguished author, the topics range from Soviet constitutional law, to Trotsky’s view of collectivization; from a critique of conventional micro-economics, to the economic disaster of the Allende regime in Chile. The author’s long-standing immersion in the past and present of the Soviet Union helps to provide the unique insights into the workings of Socialist economies characteristic of Professor Nove’s previous work. This volume should be essential reading for anyone interested in development economics, socialist economies, or the problems facing contemporary Soviet economic reformers.

The Fall and Rise of the Asiatic Mode of Production (Routledge Revivals)
The Fall and Rise of the Asiatic Mode of Production (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Stephen P. Dunn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-07-26

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1136811028

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This reissue was first published in 1982. It deals specifically with the ‘Asiatic mode of production’ described by Karl Marx in his basic evolutionary model for human society. The term defines a special form of society marked by state ownership of the means of production and extensive intervention by the state in all forms of social life. In the soviet Union, the concept has had a chequered and controversial career: leading writers, primarily Stalin, have denied its very existence, mobilizing the heavy artillery of state ideology in their defence, whilst later scholars show signs of reversing this trend. Drawing on a large body of Soviet writing on historiography, Stephen Dunn develops a critical analysis of the issue, and introduces important corrections to the accounts hitherto available in the West. His work should be of major interest to students of Soviet politics, economists and Marxists.