"The Two Trotskyisms Confront Stalinism" 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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Part 1: Trotsky of the enigmas
- TROTSKY'S EVOLVING ANALYSIS
- TROTSKY OF THE PARADOXES
- THE SIGNIFICANCE FOR TROTSKY OF STATIFIED INDUSTRY
- TROTSKY: FEVERISH FLUX
- A NEW ORGANIC SOCIO-ECONOMIC FORMATION "IN ONE COUNTRY"?
- TROTSKY IN THE 1939-40 DISPUTE AND SPLIT
- THE TROTSKYIST SCHISM: THE ORTHODOX AND THE HETERODOX
- OLD ANTAGONISMS AND THE TEST OF EVENTS
- TROTSKY'S AMBIVALENT LEGACY
- THE FALLIBILITY OF TROTSKY
- THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL AND THE USA'S WAR
- THE PROLETARIAN MILITARY POLICY
- APPENDIX: WHAT DID HAPPEN IN "EASTERN POLAND" IN 1939-40?
Part 2: The Orthodox and Russia in The War
- A NEW RUSSIAN EMPIRE?
- THE HETERODOX ON THE USSR IN WORLD WAR 2
- THE ORTHODOX IN THE RUSSO-GERMAN WAR: THE FIRST PHASE
- JULY 1941: A "MINIMUM PROGRAM" FOR RUSSIA AT WAR?
- PROGRAM AND AGENCY
- "TROTSKY'S RED ARMY" IN WORLD WAR 2
- THE SECOND PHASE: THE LENINGRAD DELIRIUM
- THE THIRD PHASE: NATALIA SEDOVA'S FIRST "INTERVENTION"
- "RESURGENCE OF THE SOVIET MASSES"
- 1941-2: TAKING STOCK
- THE FOURTH PHASE: AFTER STALINGRAD
- THE "CLASS SIGNIFICANCE" OF RUSSIA'S VICTORIES
- THE ORTHODOX DEFEND THE VICTORIOUS USSR
- THE WARSAW RISING AND JAMES P CANNON
- NATALIA'S SECOND INTERVENTION
- THE FIFTH PHASE: FREE-SWIRLING CONFUSION
- HOW THE WAR RE-SHAPED ORTHODOX TROTSKYISM
Part 3: The Orthodox and the Heterodox After The War
- THE ORTHODOX AFTER THE WAR
- THE REVENGE OF "BUREAUCRATIC COLLECTIVISM”
- WHY THE SHACHTMANITES DECLINED AND THE CANNONITES SURVIVED
- DOGMATIC MARXISM AND APPARATUS POLITICS
- CANNON AND SHACHTMAN
- HISTORIOGRAPHY
- THE ALLIANCE FOR WORKERS' LIBERTY
- THIS VOLUME, VOLUME ONE, AND VOLUME 3
* This is the edited and expanded version of the introduction, as it is in the second edition of this volume.