For revolutionary socialists the long march through the 20th century and beyond has often been over uncharted, unexpected, terrain. Understanding and fighting to purge the labour movement of Stalinism has been key. This book documents crucial debates in the 1940s between the two main strands into which Trotskyism divided.
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The Russian Revolution was a great emancipatory event for the working-class until the Stalinist counter-revolution crushed it. But the real histories of (1) the revolution; (2) those who made it and then fought Stalinism until it killed them; and (3) attempts to understand an evolving Stalinism and USSR, and to build a non-Stalinised labour movement — are all hidden. They are buried beneath both Stalinist and anti-socialist lies. These three books uncover these histories, respectively.
The history described is vital for understanding how the left got to where it is, how we can purge Stalinism from our movement and rebuild an authentic socialism, and how we should think about socialist revolution.
This discounted bundle comes with a paper study guide for each of the three books. Two book combinations are also available for the first or last pairs in this set of three.
See also In Defence of Bolshevism, plus more content on the Russian Revolution and its fate.
These books uncover the real histories — buried beneath both Stalinist and anti-socialist lies — of those of those who made the Russian Revolution and then fought Stalinism until it killed them; of attempts to understand an evolving Stalinism and USSR; and to build a non-Stalinised labour movement .
This history is vital for understanding how the left got to where it is, and how we can purge Stalinism from our movement and rebuild an authentic socialism.
This discounted combination comes with a paper study guide for both of the books. You can also get these books in combination with The Russian Revolution, which covers the history of the revolution itself.
See also In Defence of Bolshevism, and more content on the Russian Revolution and its fate.
For the revolutionary socialists, the Trotskyists, it has been a very long march through the 20th century and beyond, and over sometimes uncharted, unexpected, terrain. Central to it has been the fight against Stalinism, the attempt to understand it, the battle to wipe the labour movement clean of it.
The Fate volume 2 surveys and documents for the first time the formative debates in the 1940s between the two main strands into which Trotskyism divided.
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