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Author : Leon Trotsky
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Release Date : 1975
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105013775189
Pages : 440 pages
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Download The Challenge of the Left Opposition: 1928-29 PDF Format Full by Leon Trotsky and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Books and pamphlets by Leon Trotsky': v. 1, p. [429]; v. 2, p. [532]; v. 3, p. [427].
Author : Leo Trotskij
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Release Date : 1981
ISBN 10 : OCLC:929516250
Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Leon Trotsky
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Author : Kenneth J. Tarbuck
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 1989
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015014940194
Pages : 226 pages
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Download Bukharin's Theory of Equilibrium PDF Format Full by Kenneth J. Tarbuck and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1989 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written to mark the 100th anniversary of Bukharin's birth and the 50th anniversary of his murder, this study presents a study of Nikolai Bukharin, murdered in Moscow during the Stalin purges. His reputation has recently been rehabilitated in the USSR and his work as a key theoretician in the New Economic Policy of the 1920s has a continuing relevance. In this volume it receives close and critical scrutiny.
Author : Neil Davidson
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2012-07-24
ISBN 10 : 9781608462650
Pages : 841 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (462 downloads)
Download How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? PDF Format Full by Neil Davidson and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : Sobhanlal Datta Gupta
Publisher : Anthem Press
Release Date : 2013-10-15
ISBN 10 : 9781783080557
Pages : 236 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (8 downloads)
Download Marxism in Dark Times PDF Format Full by Sobhanlal Datta Gupta and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an alternative exploration of the subject, ‘Marxism in Dark Times’ anchors its investigation of Marxism in the conceptual spheres of humanism, democracy and pluralism. Its essays question the stereotyped, positivist notion of the theory as practised by the exponents of official Marxism, highlight the legacy of the suppressed voices in the Marxist tradition, and provide new insights into reading Marxism in the twenty-first century—affording new perspectives on Antonio Gramsci, Rosa Luxemburg, Nikolai Bukharin, David Ryazanov and the Frankfurt School. They seek to review the phenomenon of ‘Perestroika,’ explore the new historiography on Comintern, and examine the relation between Marxism and postmodernism. With its wide-ranging provision of materials—some translated here into English from German and Russian for the first time—this collection offers a pioneering English assessment of some of the most debatable issues in contemporary Marxism.
Author : Dianne Feeley
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2014-10-10
ISBN 10 : 9781608464555
Pages : 120 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (464 downloads)
Download Leon Trotsky and the Organizational Principles of the Revolutionary Party PDF Format Full by Dianne Feeley and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive examination of Leon Trotsky's view on revolutionary organizational principles, and the dynamic interplay of democratic initiative and principled centralism. Mostly in his own words, these writings are grounded in Trotsky's experience in Russia's revolutionary movement, as a leader of the International Left Opposition and Fourth International.
Author : Matthew E. Lenoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release Date : 2010-05-25
ISBN 10 : 9780300142426
Pages : 833 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (142 downloads)
Download The Kirov Murder and Soviet History PDF Format Full by Matthew E. Lenoe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash the Great Terror that decimated the Communist elite in 1937–1938; these previously unavailable documents raise new questions about whether Stalin himself ordered the murder, a subject of speculation since 1938.The book includes translations of 125 documents from the various investigations of the Kirov murder, allowing readers to reach their own conclusions about Stalin’s involvement in the assassination.
Author : Doug Lorimer
Publisher : Resistance Books
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 10 : 0909196788
Pages : 84 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (99 downloads)
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Author : Anita Pisch
Publisher : ANU Press
Release Date : 2016-12-16
ISBN 10 : 9781760460631
Pages : 538 pages
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Download The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929–1953 PDF Format Full by Anita Pisch and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1929 until 1953, Iosif Stalin’s image became a central symbol in Soviet propaganda. Touched up images of an omniscient Stalin appeared everywhere: emblazoned across buildings and lining the streets; carried in parades and woven into carpets; and saturating the media of socialist realist painting, statuary, monumental architecture, friezes, banners, and posters. From the beginning of the Soviet regime, posters were seen as a vitally important medium for communicating with the population of the vast territories of the USSR. Stalin’s image became a symbol of Bolshevik values and the personification of a revolutionary new type of society. The persona created for Stalin in propaganda posters reflects how the state saw itself or, at the very least, how it wished to appear in the eyes of the people. The ‘Stalin’ who was celebrated in posters bore but scant resemblance to the man Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, whose humble origins, criminal past, penchant for violent solutions and unprepossessing appearance made him an unlikely recipient of uncritical charismatic adulation. The Bolsheviks needed a wise, nurturing and authoritative figure to embody their revolutionary vision and to legitimate their hold on power. This leader would come to embody the sacred and archetypal qualities of the wise Teacher, the Father of the nation, the great Warrior and military strategist, and the Saviour of first the Russian land, and then the whole world. This book is the first dedicated study on the marketing of Stalin in Soviet propaganda posters. Drawing on the archives of libraries and museums throughout Russia, hundreds of previously unpublished posters are examined, with more than 130 reproduced in full colour. The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929–1953 is a unique and valuable contribution to the discourse in Stalinist studies across a number of disciplines.
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Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2008-03-31
ISBN 10 : 9789047433286
Pages : 507 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (433 downloads)
Download Alasdair MacIntyre's Engagement with Marxism PDF Format Full by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of Alasdair MacIntyre’s early writings on Marxism and ethics aims both to fill a gap in the academic literature on MacIntyre’s ethical theory, and to offer a contribution to more recent debates on the ethics of revolution.
Author : Paul Le Blanc
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2017-11-14
ISBN 10 : 9781608468782
Pages : 504 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (468 downloads)
Download October Song PDF Format Full by Paul Le Blanc and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath – animated by the lives, ideas and experiences of workers, peasants, intellectuals, artists, and revolutionaries of diverse persuasions – October Song vividly narrates the triumphs of those who struggled for a new society and created a revolutionary workers state. Yet despite profoundly democratic and humanistic aspirations, the revolution is eventually defeated by violence and authoritarianism. October Song highlights both positive and negative lessons of this historic struggle for human liberation.
Author : Peter Beilharz
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2019-12-06
ISBN 10 : 9781000706512
Pages : 202 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (76 downloads)
Download Trotsky, Trotskyism and the Transition to Socialism PDF Format Full by Peter Beilharz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987. Trotskyists have long dominated the revolutionary tradition on the Western left. Written from a critical socialist standpoint, this book provides an analysis of Trotskyism and argues that Trotskyism is increasingly irrelevant as a means of achieving socialism. It argues that, as the realisation grows that the revolutionary tradition and the authoritarianism which necessarily result from it are wrong, the importance of the problem of the transition to socialism increases. It argues that on this point Trotskyism is weak; that Trotskyism's proposals for socialist transition are largely rhetorical; and that its democratic impulse is weak. It supports this argument by showing that Trotsky’s philosophy of history, implicit in his writings, which the author characterises as evolutionary and necessitarian, coupled with a failure to grasp the moral basis of the socialist case, has a disabling effect on Trotsky's account of the transition to socialism and on his explanation of Stalinism. Moreover, it argues that Trotsky's intellectual and political heirs have been unable to escape from the contradictions inherent in his thought.
Author : Ian D. Thatcher
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2005-06-27
ISBN 10 : 9781134572144
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (572 downloads)
Download Trotsky PDF Format Full by Ian D. Thatcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new biography provides a full account of Leon Trotsky's political life, based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material. Ian D. Thatcher paints a new picture of Trotsky's standing in Russian and world history. Key myths about Trotsky's heroic work as a revolutionary, especially in Russia's first revolution of 1905 and the Russian Civil War, are thrown into question. Although Trotsky had a limited understanding of crucial contemporary events such as Hitler's rise to power, he was an important thinker and politician, not least as a trenchant critic of Stalin's version of communism.
Author : Allan Todd
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2022-09-30
ISBN 10 : 9781399010771
Pages : 345 pages
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Download Trotsky, The Passionate Revolutionary PDF Format Full by Allan Todd and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Trotsky was dramatically assassinated just over eighty years ago, he remains a controversial figure. He has had many biographers over the decades - ranging from the overly-sympathetic, to the extremely-hostile. Robert Service, his most recent biographer, expressed the hope that his book would ‘finish off’ Trotsky - a job he believed the ice-axe had failed to do in 1940! This biography, as expected, deals with those aspects for which Trotsky is noted: his passionate and fiery oratory which captivated and inspired huge crowds; organising the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917; masterminding the creation of the Red Army and ensuring its victory during the Civil War; becoming the most determined opponent of Stalin’s creation of a monolithic party and state; being a Marxist theoretician of socialist revolution and combatting fascism; and, of course, being the originator of the very specific brand of revolutionary socialism that, as early as 1906, became known as Trotskyism. However, this biography also explores other aspects of Trotsky’s life which are not so well-known. In particular, from a very early age, his love of writing: the world of books and publishing became his first passion; it remained his first love and, if revolutionary politics had not taken over, his life would have been a very literary one. Immediately after the November Revolution, he hoped to return to his literary work, believing his main practical work as a revolutionary was over. His writings on art and literature, when compared to the stultifying strictures of the ‘Socialist Realism’ associated with Stalinism, are remarkably sympathetic and open; while he also wrote many perceptive articles as a war correspondent, covering both the Balkan Wars and the early stages of the First World War. Other aspects covered by this biography concern his family life, and his relationships with his children. Also explored is his love-life - while it is known he had a brief affair with the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, there are also suggestions he may have had other affairs. Whatever the truth of such allegations, he certainly maintained a passionate relationship with his long-term companion, Natalya Sedova; and readers should be aware that one proof of that, provided towards the end of this book, contains very explicit language.
Author : Thomas M. Twiss
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2014-05-08
ISBN 10 : 9789004269538
Pages : 514 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (269 downloads)
Download Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy PDF Format Full by Thomas M. Twiss and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy, Thomas M. Twiss traces the development of Trotsky’s thinking on the issue of post-revolutionary bureaucracy from the first years after the Bolshevik Revolution through the Moscow Trials of the 1930s.
Author : David North
Publisher : Mehring Books
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9781893638051
Pages : 214 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (638 downloads)
Download In Defense of Leon Trotsky PDF Format Full by David North and published by Mehring Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
