The Fate of the Russian Revolution Vol 1

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Lost Texts of Critical Marxism

Book Cover "The Fate of the Russian Revolution: The Lost Texts of Critical Marxism Vol 1" overlaid on a black and white photo of Russian workers, holding banners, in winter.
by
Max Shachtman, Hal Draper, C L R James, Leon Trotsky and others, with an introduction by Sean Matgamna
1998
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Second Edition
Long book
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608 pages
ISBN
978-0-9531864-0-2

What was the USSR? Was it socialism? A powerful body of critical Marxist analysis of the USSR from the ‘40s and ‘50s remains largely unknown. This work of critical rediscovery vindicates those who made the Revolution, who fought Stalinism until it killed them. It traces efforts to remake a democratic, revolutionary socialist movement during the mid-century events that shaped the world since.

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Blurb

Exactly what was the USSR? Was it socialism? A powerful body of critical Marxist analysis of the USSR was produced in the 1940s and '50s by Max Shachtman, Hal Draper and others, including C L R James. Today, their work is virtually unknown. It does not deserve to be.

The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism is a work of rediscovery. Here the reader will find the key texts of these long-eclipsed, but very important, political thinkers.

The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism vindicates those who made the October Revolution. It restates the real ideas of those Bolsheviks who fought Stalinism until it killed them.

It provides an account of efforts to remake a democratic, revolutionary socialist movement in the maelstrom of the mid-century events that gave to the world the shape it would retain until the 1990s.

A long introductory essay traces Leon Trotsky's attempts to understand Stalinism and submits Trotsky's ideas to a systematic criticism.

Table of Contents
  • The Russian Revolution and Marxism
    • Introduction by Sean Matgamna
  • Revolution and Counter-revolution in Russia
    • For the Bolshevik Revolution!
    • The Stalinist Counter-revolution in the USSR
  • What Sort of Counter Revolution?
    • The Two Souls of Trotskyism
    • Which Class Rules in the USSR?
    • Russian Imperialist Expansion
    • What Did it Mean for Socialists to "Defend the USSR" in the Second World War?
  • The Long "Third Period": Trotskyism after Trotsky
    • The Other Trotskyists
    • From "Orthodoxy" to Millenarianism I: Who Will Make the Revolution
    • From "Orthodoxy" to Millenarianism II: The Red Army and Stalinism as Agents of Socialist Advance
    • Balance Sheets
    • Trotsky's International at the Nadir
    • The New Russian Empire
    • Trotsky or Deutscher
    • Stalinism and the Marxist Tradition
  • Appendices
  • Index

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