Challenge of the Left Opposition 1928-1929
Challenge of the Left Opposition 1928-1929

Author: Leon Trotsky

Publisher: Pathfinder Press (NY)

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780873486156

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Documents the fight of the communist opposition from 1923 to 1929 against the reactionary political and economic policies of the rising bureaucratic caste in the Soviet Union.

The Challenge of the Left Opposition (1928-29)
The Challenge of the Left Opposition (1928-29)

Author: Leon Trotsky

Publisher: Challenge of the Left Oppositi

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9780873486163

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Documents the fight of the communist opposition from 1923 to 1929 against the reactionary political and economic policies of the rising bureaucratic caste in the Soviet Union. 3rd of 3 vols.

U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part III: Resurgence
U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part III: Resurgence

Author: Paul Le Blanc

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-12-24

Total Pages: 728

ISBN-13: 9004389288

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U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part III: Resurgence: Uneven and Combined Development is the third of a documentary trilogy on a revolutionary socialist split-off from the U.S. Communist Party, reflecting Leon Trotsky’s confrontation with Stalinism in the global Communist movement. Spanning 1954 to 1965, this volume surveys the Cold War era, the civil rights and black liberation movements, the 'third wave' of feminism, and other social and cultural developments of the 1950s and 1960s. Documenting responses to a variety of anti-colonial and revolutionary insurgencies, the volume also surveys the crisis and decline of Stalinism. Attention is given to internal debates and splits, but also to the partial reunification of the international Trotskyist movement (the Fourth International), as well as substantial contributions to the study of history and the development of Marxist theory. Scholars and activists will find much of interest in these primary sources.

The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia
The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia

Author: Robert V. Daniels

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 0300134932

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Distinguished historian of the Soviet period Robert V. Daniels offers a penetrating survey of the evolution of the Soviet system and its ideology. In a tightly woven series of analyses written during his career-long inquiry into the Soviet Union, Daniels explores the Soviet experience from Karl Marx to Boris Yeltsin and shows how key ideological notions were altered as Soviet history unfolded. The book exposes a long history of American misunderstanding of the Soviet Union, leading up to the "grand surprise" of its collapse in 1991. Daniels's perspective is always original, and his assessments, some worked out years ago, are strikingly prescient in the light of post-1991 archival revelations. Soviet Communism evolved and decayed over the decades, Daniels argues, through a prolonged revolutionary process, combined with the challenges of modernization and the personal struggles between ideologues and power-grabbers.

The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect
The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect

Author: John Marot

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-06-08

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9004229876

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In a series of probing analytical essays, John Marot tracks the development of Bolshevism through the prism of pre-1917 intra-Russian Social Democratic controversies in politics and philosophy. For 1917, the author presents a critique of social historical interpretation of the Russian Revolution. Turning to NEP Russia, the author applies Robert Brenner's analysis of pre-capitalist modes of production and concludes that neither Bukharin nor Trotsky's NEP-premised programs of economic transformation and advance toward socialism were feasible. At the same time, he rejects the view that Stalinism was pre-destined to supplant NEP. Instead, he hypothesises that the superior alternative to Stalinism was NEP without collectivization and the Five-Year Plans — a outcome that would have been possible had Bukharin and Trotsky joined forces to stop Stalin.