The Fate of the Russian Revolution "Lost Texts of Critical Marxism" v.I I

Exactly what was the USSR? Was it socialism? A powerful body of critical Marxist analysis of the USSR was produced in the 1940s and '50s by Max Shachtman, Hal Draper and others, including CLR James. Today, their work is virtually unknown. It does not deserve to be. The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism is a work of rediscovery. Here the reader will find the key texts of these long-eclipsed, but very important, political thinkers. The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism vindicates those who made the October Revolution. It restates the real ideas of those Bolsheviks who fought Stalinism until it killed them. It provides an account of efforts to remake a democratic, revolutionary socialist movement in the maelstrom of the mid-century events that gave to the world the shape it would retain until the 1990s. A long introductory essay traces Leon Trotsky's attempts to understand Stalinism and submits Trotsky's ideas to a systematic criticism. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND MARXISM Introduction by Sean Matgamna REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA 1-) For the Bolshevik Revolution! 2-) The Stalinist Counter-revolution in the USSR WHAT SORT OF COUNTER_REVOLUTION? 3-) The Two Souls of Trotsyism 4-) Which Class Rules in the USSR? 5-) Russian Imperialist Expansion 6-) What Did it Mean for Socialists to "Defend the USSR" in the Second World War? THE LONG "THIRD PERIOD": TROTSKYISM AFTER TROTSKY 7-) The Other Trotskyists 8-) From "Ortodoxy" to Millenarianism I : Who Will Make the Revolution? 9-) From "Ortodoxy" to Millenarianism II : The Red Army and Stalinism as agents of Socialist Advance 10-) Balance Sheets 11-) Trotsky's Intenational at the Nadir 12-) The New Russian Empire 13-) Trotsky or Deutscher? 14-) Stalinism and the Marxist Tradition Appendices Index Cover slightly worn, pages in excellent condition