[PDF] The Challenge Of The Left Opposition 1926 27 eBook

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Challenge of the Left Oppositi
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780873485678

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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. 2nd of 3 vols.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Pathfinder Press (NY)
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN :

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'Books and pamphlets by Leon Trotsky': v. 1, p. [429]; v. 2, p. [532]; v. 3, p. [427].

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Communism
ISBN :

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'Books and pamphlets by Leon Trotsky': v. 1, p. [429]; v. 2, p. [532]; v. 3, p. [427].

Author : Neil Davidson
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 160846265X

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“An impressive contribution both to the history of ideas and to political philosophy.” —Alasdair MacIntyre, author of After Virtue Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, recently the concept of the “bourgeois revolution” has come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this magisterial work, Neil Davidson offers theoretical and historical insights about the nature of revolutions. Through extensive research and comprehensive analysis, Davidson demonstrates that what’s at stake is far from a stale issue for the history books—understanding that these struggles of the past offer far-reaching lessons for today’s radicals. “A monumental work. Neil Davidson has given us what is easily the most comprehensive account yet of the ‘life and times’ of the concept of ‘bourgeois revolution’ [and] has also provided us with a refined set of theoretical tools for understanding the often complex interactions between political revolutions which overturn state institutions and social revolutions which involve a more thoroughgoing transformation of social relations.” —Colin Mooers, author of The Making of Bourgeois Europe “Davidson’s book is one of immense and impressive erudition. His knowledge of the history of Marxist theory and historiography is as detailed as it is comprehensive, and must be well-nigh unrivalled. The endless, complex debates that characterize the Marxist tradition are distilled with clarity and illumination.” —Times Literary Supplement “A brilliant and fascinating book, wide-ranging and lucidly written.” —Jairus Banaji, author of Theory as History

Author : Thomas M. Twiss
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004269533

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During the twentieth century the problem of post-revolutionary bureaucracy emerged as the most pressing theoretical and political concern confronting Marxism. No one contributed more to the discussion of this question than Leon Trotsky. In Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy, Thomas M. Twiss traces the development of Trotsky’s thinking on this issue from the first years after the Bolshevik Revolution through the Moscow Trials of the 1930s. Throughout, he examines how Trotsky’s perception of events influenced his theoretical understanding of the problem, and how Trotsky’s theory reciprocally shaped his analysis of political developments. Additionally, Twiss notes both strengths and weaknesses of Trotsky’s theoretical perspective at each stage in its development.

Author : E. A. Rees
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1783080884

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The first English-language biography of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin’s leading deputies, ‘Iron Lazar’ investigates the life of a man of key importance to the shaping of the Stalinist state. With its insight into the political and personal relations of the Stalin group, as well as its examination of this aspiring politician’s policy-making role during the Stalinist regime, ‘Iron Lazar’ investigates the previously undocumented life of Lazar Kaganovich, the last surviving member of the Stalin government and one-time heir apparent to the Soviet Union.

Author : Geoffrey Swain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1317812786

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Supporters of Stalin saw Trotsky as a traitor and renegade. Trotsky’s own supporters saw him as the only true Leninist. In Trotsky and the Russian Revolution, Geoffrey Swain restores Trotsky to his real and central role in the Russian Revolution. In this succinct and comprehensive study, Swain contests that: In the years between 1903 and 1917, it was the ideas of Trotsky, rather than Lenin, which shaped the nascent Bolshevik Party and prepared it for the overthrow of the Tsar. During the autumn of 1917 workers supported Trotsky’s idea of an insurrection carried out by the soviet, rather than Lenin’s demand for a party orchestrated coup d’etat. During the Russian Civil War, Trotsky persuaded a sceptical Lenin that the only way to victory was through the employment of officers trained in the Tsar’s army. As well as examining Trotsky’s critique of Stalin’s Russia in the 1930s, this seminar reader probes deeper to explore the ideas which drove Trotsky forward during his years of influence over Russia’s revolutionary politics, exploring such key concepts as how to construct a revolutionary party, how to stage a successful insurrection, how to fight a revolutionary war, and how to build a socialist state.