The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky
Title | The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky PDF eBook |
Author | Baruch Knei-Paz |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 660 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780198272342 |
The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky
The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky
Title | The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Knapheis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 789 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Soviet Union |
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Trotsky
Title | Trotsky PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Mandel |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2017-11-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1788731964 |
Leon Trotsky was the most important contributor to the development of revolutionary Marxism this century, after Lenin. As exiled militant or Soviet statesman, party organizer or public orator, as political analyst, soldier or commentator on cultural trends, he was centrally involved in the world-historic upheavals of his time and foremost among the interpreters of their significance for socialism. Yet the fate of his achievement was dramatically discrepant from Lenin's. At the latter's death in 1924, his revolutionary authority was at its zenith. In the Soviet Union his writings were consecrated as repository of a finished dogma, 'Leninism'. Abroad, his thought was interpreted in way much closer to its own original spirit by Georg Lukcs, whose remarkable Lenin sought to elicit its unity and actuality for a later revolutionary generation. In polar contrast, factional assault, official disgrace and proscription, anathema and slander, were the conditions of Trotsky's later life and activity-until his assassination in 1940-and the unvarying background of any reaffirmation of his heritage for decades afterwards. Systematic publication of his writings was beyond the means of his political followers-whose internal discussions of his ides were supplemented only by the attentions of liberal (where not reactionary) academics. In the last decade, however, with the resurgence of the political formations associated with his name, Trotsky's political role and ideas have again become topics of vigorous debate among socialists. Ernest Mandel's book makes possible a necessary extension of this debate by providing the first ever synthetic account of the development of Trotsky's Marxism in its successive encounters with the key problems and crises of the epoch. The Russian revolution and the theme of uneven development, the construction of revolutionary parties, the struggle against fascism and imperialism at large, the nature of Stalinism and the prospect of a full socialist democracy, are all discussed in a compact study that makes a fitting and long overdue counterpart to Lukcs's historic study of fifty years ago.
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.
The Prophet
Title | The Prophet PDF eBook |
Author | Isaac Deutscher |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 1028 |
Release | 2015-01-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1781685622 |
This 3-part biography of Leon Trotsky was hailed by Graham Greene as one of “the greatest . . . in the English language”—a must read for those interested in the history of Soviet Russia and international communism. Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that his life and influence would be relegated to the footnotes of history. Published over the course of ten years, beginning in 1954, Deutscher’s magisterial three-volume biography turned back the tide of Stalin’s propaganda, and has since been praised by everyone from Tony Blair to Graham Greene. In this definitive work, now reissued in a single volume, Trotsky’s true stature emerges as the most heroic, and ultimately tragic, character of the Russian Revolution.
Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism): a reply to Karl Kantsky
Title | Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism): a reply to Karl Kantsky PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Trotsky |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2022-05-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
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The book by Trotsky was created amid the civil war and the Soviet revolution. At those times, the battles were held both on military and ideological grounds. This work by Trotsky attempts to give a philosophical, logical, and political foundation for the soviet politics of red terror.
Portraits, Political & Personal
Title | Portraits, Political & Personal PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Trotsky |
Publisher | New York : Pathfinder Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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