Leon Trotsky's Theory of Revolution
Title | Leon Trotsky's Theory of Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | John Molyneux |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution
Title | Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Doug Lorimer |
Publisher | Resistance Books |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780909196783 |
The Evolution of Trotsky's Theory of Revolution
Title | The Evolution of Trotsky's Theory of Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Curtis Stokes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Results and Prospects
Title | Results and Prospects PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Trotsky |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2022-11-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
In response to criticism from Soviet politician Karl Radek, Leon Trotsky wrote the essay "The Permanent Revolution". Following Trotsky's expulsion from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1927, The Left Opposition released the text in Russian. This was written following the death of Vladimir Lenin, which started a power struggle among the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's military, bureaucratic, and legislative branches. General Secretary Joseph Stalin created a political partnership with Trotsky opponents Lev Kamenev, Zinnoviev, and Nikolai Bukharin inside The Politburo and The Central Committee. Stalin's bloc followed an isolationist ideology known as Socialism in One Country, which prioritized economic growth above global upheaval.
The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects
Title | The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Trotsky |
Publisher | Red Letter Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0932323294 |
Originally published: Moscow; New York: Progress Publishers/ Militant Publishing Association, 1931.
Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation
Title | Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation PDF eBook |
Author | Richard B. Day |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521524360 |
A highly original and controversial examination of events in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1927 in which Professor Day challenges both the standard Trotskyite and Stalinist interpretations of the period. At the same time he rejects the traditional emphasis on Trotsky's concept of Permanent Revolution and argues that a Marxist theorist is essential. Professor Day concentrates upon the economic implications of revolutionary Russia's isolation from Europe. How to build socialism - in a backward, war-ravaged society, without aid from the West: this problem lay behind many of the most important political conflicts of Soviet Russia's formative years.
Lenin, Trotsky and the Theory of the Permanent Revolution
Title | Lenin, Trotsky and the Theory of the Permanent Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | John Peter Roberts |
Publisher | Wellred Books |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1900007525 |
Today, yet again, from Latin America to Nepal, in India and the Middle East, the question of which strategy the masses should adopt to take control of their own lives is being posed. Without exception the leaders of the mass workers’ parties urge class-collaboration as the way forward. Actively supported by the national Communist Parties and even Maoist guerrilla groups a petty-bourgeois amalgam proposes collaboration with the so-called national bourgeoisie as the only path to national independence and democracy. In the century since the Russian Revolution, the first modern, popular revolution to succeed in throwing out the imperialists, much time and effort has been spent, especially by the former Soviet bureaucracy, in neutering Lenin – praising him while tearing out the revolutionary heart of his theories. This book demonstrates that the Russian Revolution, a model for a victorious, popular revolution in a semi-colonial country in the era of imperialism, required not a bourgeois-democratic, but a socialist revolution for the people to take power. The old regime had to be destroyed and the state and governmental power seized by the working classes before it was possible to achieve national independence and carry though any meaningful agrarian reform for the benefit of the peasantry. Lenin’s close collaborator in October 1917 was Leon Trotsky and the success of that revolution was due to the combination of the discipline and organisation of Lenin’s Bolshevik Party and Trotsky’s political theory of the permanent revolution. This book goes back to basics, critically analysing and comparing Lenin’s and Trotsky’s own writings, which are sited in their source and inspiration - the Russian Revolution of 1905. It is shown that Lenin, in October 1917, adopted the perspectives of Permanent Revolution: that to finally rid Russia of autocracy, and legitimise the peasants’ seizure of the land, the Russian Revolution required the introduction of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the first steps towards the collectivisation of the means of production. Those who attack the theory of Permanent Revolution never challenge the correctness of its basic concept, that the international socialist revolution could begin in semi-feudal Russia. Instead, in the guise of anti-Trotskyism, they deny the validity of Lenin’s struggle for a socialist revolution in October 1917.