Notes on The Roots of Bolshevism

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Sean Matgamna

By Sean Matgamna

  • 1. How Russian Marxism Began
  • 2. Marxism and populism in Russia
  • 3. Sophia Perovskaya: Portrait of a Regicide
  • 4. Russia's Real Exceptionalism
  • 5. Axelrod the Pioneer
  • 6. The First Workers' Unions
  • 7. The Workers Awaken in St Petersburg
  • 8. The Triumph and Defeat of Narodnaya Volya
  • 9. Plekhanov. the Father of Russian Marxism
  • 10. "The Tasks of the Social Democrats In the Famine"
  • 11. The Background to Lenin's Iskra
  • 12. What Is To Be Done
  • 13. "Socialism and the Workers' Struggle"
  • 14. Marxism and the class struggle
    APPENDICES
  • a. Trotsky: Russian Populism: Advancing Through Heroism and Agony
  • b. What was the Bolshevik conception of the October Revolution?
  • c. Trotsky: Three Conceptions of the Russian Revolution
  • d. Brian Pearce: How The Bolshevik Party Was Built
  • e. Max Shachtman: Did Leninism turn into Stalinism?