Introduction by Sean Matgamna
1. For the Bolshevik revolution!
2. The Stalinist counter-revolution in the USSR
3. The two souls of Trotskyism
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?
7. The other Trotskyists
8. From "orthodoxy" to millenarianism I: who will make the revolution?
9. From "orthodoxy" to millenarianism II: The Red Army and Stalinism as agents of
socialist advance
10. Balance sheets
11. Trotsky's International at the nadir
12. The new Russian empire
13. Trotsky or Deutscher?
14. Stalinism and the Marxist tradition
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Constructing the socialist order |
11 |
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Bolshevism at bay: Trotsky on the USSR |
46 |
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The "locum" and totalitarian economism |
110 |
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The neo-Trotskyists and Stalinist expansion |
115 |
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Max Shachtman and James P Cannon |
144 |
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Trotsky and the future of socialism |
150 |
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The first great workers' revolution |
Max Shachtman |
160 |
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October is ours! |
Max Shachtman |
164 |
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The "mistakes" of the Bolsheviks |
Max Shachtman |
168 |
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A democratic revolution |
Max Shachtman |
175 |
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The Constituent Assembly |
Max Shachtman |
183 |
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The civil war |
Max Shachtman |
188 |
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Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg |
Max Shachtman |
195 |
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Revolution and violence |
Max Shachtman |
201 |
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Who made the revolution? |
Leon Trotsky |
210 |
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The party régime |
Leon Trotsky |
212 |
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A Leninist debates Kerensky |
Labor Action |
215 |
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Revolution and counter-revolution in Russia |
Max Shachtman |
218 |
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Why Stalin defeated Trotsky |
Max Shachtman |
231 |
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The mask is off! |
James Burnham |
238 |
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Hitler and Stalin invade Poland |
Max Shachtman |
240 |
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The Soviet Union and the world war |
Max Shachtman |
249 |
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A new banner and a new beginning |
Max Shachtman |
259 |
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Burnham's theses |
James Burnham |
264 |
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After the Stalinist Invasion of Poland |
Albert Goldman |
266 |
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A counter-revolutionary imperialist workers' state? |
C L R James |
267 |
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Minority resolution, September 28, 1939 |
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268 |
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National Committee plenum, September 30-October 1, 1939 |
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270 |
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The expulsion of the minority |
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270 |
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Is Russia a workers' state? |
Max Shachtman |
272 |
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Shachtman contra Burnham |
Max Shachtman |
292 |
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Bureaucratic collectivism |
Joseph Carter |
294 |
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Who owns the state? |
Max Shachtman |
300 |
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"Our differences with the Democratic Centralists": letter to Borodai |
Leon Trotsky |
305 |
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Stalin's slave laborers |
Louis Jacobs |
310 |
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The mysterious Bruno R |
James M Fenwick |
315 |
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The USSR is a fascist state capitalism |
C L R James |
319 |
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The counter-revolutionary revolution |
Max Shachtman |
326 |
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The program of Stalinist imperialism |
Max Shachtman |
331 |
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The war in Russia |
American Committee for the Fourth International |
342 |
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"Defend the Soviet Union"? |
Max Shachtman |
348 |
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Defend the Soviet Union! |
James P Cannon |
352 |
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The "orthodox" defense of the Soviet Union in practice |
Labor Action |
354 |
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The Baltics and Iran: early stages of USSR expansion |
Albert Goldman |
357 |
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The strange case of The Militant and the USSR in the first 18 months of the war |
Editor's note |
363 |
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The party we need |
Max Shachtman |
372 |
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The Workers Party: aims, tasks and structures |
Workers Party |
379 |
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The Workers Party and Burnham |
Workers Party |
383 |
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A McCarthyite police agent speaks his lines |
Labor Action |
385 |
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From anti-Hitlerism to socialism |
Albert Glotzer |
388 |
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The "democratic interlude" and working-class leadership |
Albert Glotzer |
394 |
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National liberation and fantasy politics |
Herman Benson |
402 |
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What is a revolutionary situation? |
Leon Trotsky |
407 |
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The policy of "if" |
Lewis Coser |
411 |
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Was Stalin's army "Red"? |
Max Shachtman |
414 |
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The class meaning of the Soviet victories |
Felix Morrow |
426 |
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It is time to understand |
Max Shachtman |
428 |
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A blow at the Fourth International |
Max Shachtman |
437 |
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The bureaucratic jungle |
Max Shachtman |
440 |
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Pre-war perspectives and post-war realities |
Max Shachtman |
448 |
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USA: the two Trotskyist traditions |
Max Shachtman |
458 |
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The Fourth International |
Workers Party |
460 |
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The 1948 congress of the Fourth International |
Max Shachtman |
462 |
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Starting anew |
Workers Party |
477 |
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The socialist banner will wave in victory! |
Max Shachtman |
478 |
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Russian imperialism and Stalinism |
Workers Party |
482 |
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The new Russian empire |
Hal Draper |
490 |
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Trotsky's Stalin |
Max Shachtman |
500 |
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Deutscher's Stalin |
Max Shachtman |
515 |
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Stalinism and the Marxist tradition |
Max Shachtman |
533 |
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What the 1939-40 dispute was about |
Abern, Bern, Burnham, Shachtman |
548 |
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Reply to Trotsky |
Max Shachtman |
564 |
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Reply to Trotsky |
James Burnham |
580 |
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At the turning point of the twentieth century: Germany 1933 |
Max Shachtman |
586 |
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The Fourth International is founded |
Max Shachtman |
592 |