Vietnam and the World Revolution: A Trotskyist Analysis

History

Martin McLaughlin

Asia

Mehring Books

Perestroika Versus Socialism: Stalinism and the Restoration of Capitalism in the USSR

North, David

"Permanent revolution" calls Leon Trotsky to mind as surely as "relativity" does Albert Einstein. In their originality and scope, these two famous theories have a symmetry.     Leon Trotsky was a leading Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was a central leader of the Russian revolution and an influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union. He was Commissar for Foreign Affairs, founder and commander of the Red Army and Commissar of War.  He led the struggle against Stalin's  bureaucratization of the Soviet Union in  the 1920s. Trotsky was expelled from the  Communist Party and deported from the  Soviet Union in the Great Purge.      As the founder of the Fourth International, he continued in exile to encourage workers and oppressed peoples to unite against capitalism, and for socialist revolution.   PRAISE FOR 'THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION'  I'm very much of Trotsky's line - the permanent revolution.   - Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela  Trotsky's writings on the permanent revolution are the theoretical mainspring of proletarian revolutionary strategy and are an obligatory study for all who aspire to lead the working-class in the struggle for socialism, whether in the capitalist countries of the West or in the backward colonial countries.  - Li Fu-jen, co-founder, Communist League of China  The whole essence of Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution lies in the idea that the colonial bourgeoisie and the bourgeoisie of the backward countries are incapable of carrying out the tasks of the bourgeois democratic revolution. - Ted Grant, editor, Militant

The Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects

Trotsky, Léon

Military

Defending Principles: The Political Legacy of Bill Brust

Politics & Social Sciences

Brust, Bill

Politics & Government

This is the only memoir to be written in the post-Stalin Soviet Union by a member of the Left Opposition that had been formed under the leadership of Leon Trotsky in 1923. Nadezhda Joffe is the daughter of Adolf Abramovich Joffe, the Bolshevik leader and Left Oppositionist who committed suicide in 1927 to protest the expulsion of Trotsky from the Bolshevik Party. She gives a nightmarish and moving account of her fate and that of countless others at the hands of the Stalinist bureaucracy. Nadezhda Joffe survived and her memoir provides us with the testimony of one who experienced, with a high degree of political consciousness, the most tragic events of this century. "Mrs. Joffe writes of the pain and difficulty of everyday life in the Kolyma camps, but the book also contains her memories of Trotsky, which offer interesting personal anecdotes about a man known best for his passion for communism and dedication to the Red Army.--The Jewish News (Detroit) ;Rarely does one come across a book that makes one sad enough to cry and yet able in the end to celebrate the indestructibility of the human spirit. This is such a book."--Theodore Draper, New Republic;

Back in Time: My Life, My Fate, My Epoch : The Memoirs of Nadezhda A. Joffe

Biographies & Memoirs

Joffe, Nadezhda A.

Memoirs

First English translation of 26 articles by the major Bolshevik literary critic and member of the Left Opposition. Includes Art as the Cognition of Life, and the contemporary World as well as writings on Tolstoy Gorky, Pilniak, Esenin, Esenin, Larisa Reisner and Freud, newspaper articles, a satire, two letters addressed to his Stalinist persecutors, and an appendix of six documents crucial to an understanding of the events of the 1920s. Glossary, biographical notes, name, subject and works indexes.

Art as the Cognition of Life: Selected Writings 1911-1936

Literature & Fiction

Aleksandr Konstantinovich Voronsky

History & Criticism

Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia’s Civil War, Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship. In his provocative commentary to this new edition the philosopher Slavoj iek argues that Trotsky’s attack on the illusions of liberal democracy has a vital relevance today.

Terrorism and Communism

The Stalin School of Falsification

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) the leader of the Russian Revolution and Stalin s unyielding opponent remains an immensely controversial figure seventy years after his assassination in Mexico City. In this collection of essays and lectures, David North, an authority on Soviet history, examines the disputes surrounding Trotsky s life and ideas and explains their contemporary relevance. Exposing recent efforts by several British scholars to denigrate Trotsky s historical role by falsifying history, the author insists that their aim is to forestall a resurgence of interest in the great revolutionist at a time when millions of people are becoming disenchanted with capitalism. The passions evoked by [Trotsky s] name testify to the enduring significance of [his] ideas, North writes in the introduction of his book. Arguments about Trotsky are never simply about what happened in the past. They are just as much about what is happening in the world today, and what is likely to happen in the future. In the first section of In Defense of Leon Trotsky, North explores Trotsky s Theory of Permanent Revolution and insists that it had a decisive impact on the events of October 1917, which is often overlooked by scholars. Examining Trotsky s varying treatment at the hands of the liberal left intelligentsia over the post-war period, North argues that shifts in the attitude of scholars towards the Russian revolutionary have been bound up with changes in the objective political and economic situation. He challenges today s historians to once again turn serious and honest attention to Trotsky s life and ideas. In the last two parts of the collection, readers will find reviews of recent biographies of Trotsky written by Geoffrey Swain, Ian Thatcher, and Robert Service. North demonstrates that these biographies reproduce many of the same claims made by Stalin in order to besmirch Trotsky reputation and undermine his political authority in the working class. Rather than shedding light on the man and his work, these books, which are riddled with factual errors, are part of the unrelenting campaign of vilification of which Trotsky has been the object for decades. In Defense of Leon Trotsky contains numerous photographs of Trotsky and family members interspersed throughout the text, as well as a complete index.

In Defense of Leon Trotsky

Historical Study & Educational Resources

This document was adopted at the founding congress of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), which was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on August 3-9, 2008. Tracing essential historical events and political experiences spanning more than a century, The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party establishes the theoretical and political basis of the struggle for socialism.

The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (US)

Socialist Equality Party

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