Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 13)

a Highly Original And Controversial Examination Of Events In Soviet Russia From 1917 To 1927 In Which Professor Day Challenges Both The Standard Trotskyite And Stalinist Interpretations Of The Period. At The Same Time He Rejects The Traditional Emphasis On Trotsky's Concept Of Permanent Revolution And Argues That A Marxist Theorist Is Essential. Professor Day Concentrates Upon The Economic Implications Of Revolutionary Russia's Isolation From Europe. How To Build Socialism - In A Backward, War-ravaged Society, Without Aid From The West: This Problem Lay Behind Many Of The Most Important Political Conflicts Of Soviet Russia's Formative Years. Cover 1 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 Dedication 8 Preface 9 Part one: THE DILEMMA OF ECONOMIC ISOLATION 11 1 The myth of Trotskyism 13 The theory of Permanent Revolution 16 The theory of imperialism 21 2 Isolation and the mobilization of labour 27 The need for revolutionary discipline 27 The substitution of labour for capital 31 The Ninth Party Congress 38 The crisis in the transport industry 44 The significance of Isolationism in Trotsky's thought 54 3 Integrationism and the New Economy Policy 57 The substitution of capital for labour 57 The cyclical theory of capitalism's decline 65 The Trotsky-SokoPnikov conflict 69 Part two: THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC ISOLATION 77 4 The search for a new faith 79 Post-Genoa reassessments 79 Protectionism and planning 83 The Twelfth Party Congress 91 The sales crisis and Trotsky's defeat 96 The British loan negotiations 101 From Permanent Revolution to Socialism in One Country 107 5 Socialism in One Country 115 Divisions in the triumvirate 116 Trotsky's assessment of the competing factions 123 6 Trotsky's alternative 136 From the theory of Imperialism to Integrationism 137 An assessment of Trotsky*s integrationism 158 7 Trotsky's attack on socialism in a 'separate' country 163 Offensive and counter-offensive in 1926 164 The Fifteenth Party Conference 172 Trotsky appeals to the International 176 Divisions and defeat 182 8 Integrationism in defeat and exile 189 Assessing Stalin's 'left course' 190 Final judgements of the Soviet experiment 197 Bibliography 203 PRIMARY SOURCES 203 SECONDARY WORKS 209 Notes 212 Index 225 In the historiography of Russian Marxism the name of Leon Trotsky is invariably linked with two very famous political slogans: Permanent Revolution and Socialism in One Country. [by] Richard B. Day. Bibliography: P. [193]-201.