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The revolution betrayed

Leon Trotsky and Max Eastman 2012 © Public Domain
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  • 9780486433981 (paper)
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  • European: Russia & Eastern
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  • Frontmatter
  • INTRODUCTION The Purpose of the Present Work (page 1)
  • POSTSCRIPT (page 3)
  • I WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED
    • 1. The Principal Indices of Industrial Growth (page 5)
    • 2. Comparative Estimate of These Achievements (page 8)
    • 3. Production Per Capita of the Population (page 12)
  • II ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE ZIGZAGS OF THE LEADERSHIP
    • 1. "Military Communism," the "New Economic Policy" (NEP) and the Course Toward the Kulak (page 17)
    • 2. A Sharp Turn: "Five-Year Plan in Four Years" and "Complete Collectivization" (page 25)
  • III SOCIALISM AND THE STATE
    • 1. The Transitional Regime (page 35)
    • 2. Program and Reality (page 38)
    • 3. The Dual Character of the Workers' State (page 40)
    • 4. "Generalized Want" and the Gendarme (page 43)
    • 5. The "Complete Triumph of Socialism" and the "Reinforcement of the Dictatorship" (page 46)
  • IV THE STRUGGLE FOR PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOR
    • 1. Money and Plan (page 50)
    • 2. "Socialist" Inflation (page 53)
    • 3. The Rehabilitation of the Ruble (page 57)
    • 4. The Stakhanov Movement (page 60)
  • V THE SOVIET THERMIDOR
    • 1. Why Stalin Triumphed (page 66)
    • 2. The Degeneration of the Bolshevik Party (page 72)
    • 3. The Social Roots of Thermidor (page 80)
  • VI THE GROWTH OF INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL ANTAGONISMS
    • 1. Want, Luxury and Speculation (page 87)
    • 2. The Differentiation of the Proletariat (page 93)
    • 3. Social Contradictions in the Collective Village (page 97)
    • 4. The Social Physiognomy of the Ruling Stratum (page 102)
  • VII FAMILY, YOUTH AND CULTURE
    • 1. Thermidor in the Family (page 109)
    • 2. The Struggle Against the Youth (page 120)
    • 3. Nationality and Culture (page 128)
  • VIII FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ARMY
    • 1. From "World Revolution" to "Status Quo" (page 141)
    • 2. The League of Nations and the Communist International (page 146)
    • 3. The Red Army and Its Doctrines (page 154)
    • 4. The Abolition of the Militia and the Restoration of Officers' Ranks (page 163)
    • 5. The Soviet Union in a War (page 170)
  • IX SOCIAL RELATIONS IN THE SOVIET UNION
    • 1. State Capitalism? (page 185)
    • 2. Is the Bureaucracy a Ruling Class? (page 187)
    • 3. The Question of the Character of the Soviet Union Not Yet Decided by History (page 190)
  • X THE SOVIET UNION IN THE MIRROR OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION
    • 1. Work "According to Ability" and Personal Property (page 194)
    • 2. The Soviets and Democracy (page 197)
    • 3. Democracy and the Party (page 200)
  • XI WHITHER THE SOVIET UNION?
    • 1. Bonapartism as a Regime of Crisis (page 206)
    • 2. The Struggle of the Bureaucracy with "the Class Enemy" (page 210)
    • 3. The Inevitability of a New Revolution (page 214)
  • APPENDIX: "SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY" (page 220)
    • 1. The "Friends" of the Soviet Union (page 227)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
IA 16.5 (Sep. 1937): 818-819 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2603865
APSR 31.5 (Oct. 1937): 966-967 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1947929
ASR 3.2 (Apr. 1938): 295-297 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2084305
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