Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-16770-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 684 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1225 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

The theory of Permanent Revolution has been associated with Leon Trotsky for more than a century since the first Russian Revolution in 1905. Trotsky was the most brilliant proponent of Permanent Revolution but by no means its sole author. The documents in this volume, most of them translated into English for the first time, demonstrate that Trotsky was one of several participants in a debate from 1903-7 that involved numerous leading figures of Russian and European Marxism, including Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring, Parvus and David Ryazanov.

This volume reassembles that debate, assesses it with reference to Marx and Engels, and provides new evidence for interpreting the formative years of Russian revolutionary Marxism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Day, Richard B

Gaido, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen Russische Revolution
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction

1. The Slavs and Revolution (1902), Karl Kautsky
2. The Draft Programme of Iskra and the Tasks of Russian Social Democrats (1903), N. Ryazanov
3. ‘Orthodox’ Pedantry (1903), G.V. Plekhanov
4. To What Extent is the Communist Manifesto Obsolete? (First edition: 1903 – Revised edition: June 1906), Karl Kautsky
5. Revolutionary Questions (February 1904), Karl Kautsky
6. What Was Accomplished on 9th January (January 1905), Parvus
7. Up to the Ninth of January (1905), Leon Trotsky
8. After the Petersburg Uprising: What Next? (20 January [2 February] 1905), Leon Trotsky
9. The Revolution in Russia (28 January, 1905), Rosa Luxemburg
10. After the First Act (4 February, 1905), Rosa Luxemburg
11. The Consequences of the Japanese Victory and Social Democracy (July 1905), Karl Kautsky
12. Introduction to Ferdinand Lassalle’s Speech to the Jury (July 1905), Leon Trotsky
13. Social Democracy and Revolution (25 November [12 November], 1905), Leon Trotsky
14. The Revolution in Permanence (1 November 1905 - 25 November [12 November], 1905), Franz Mehring
15. The Next Questions of our Movement (September 1905), N. Ryazanov
16. Our Tasks (13 November, 1905), Parvus
17. Foreword to Karl Marx, Parizhskaya Kommuna (December 1905), Leon Trotsky
18. The Russian Revolution (20 December, 1905), Rosa Luxemburg
19. Old and New Revolution (December 1905), Karl Kautsky
20. The Sans-Culottes of the French Revolution (1889, reprinted December 1905), Karl Kautsky
21. The Role of the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat in the Russian Revolution: Speech to the Fifth (London) Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (25 May 1907), Rosa Luxemburg
22. The Driving Forces of the Russian Revolution and Its Prospects (November 1906), Karl Kautsky
23. The American Worker (February 1906), Karl Kautsky

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard B. Day, Ph. D. (1970), University of London, is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published extensively on Soviet economic and political history, including Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation (Cambridge, 1973).

Daniel F. Gaido, Ph.D. (2000), University of Haifa (Israel), is a researcher at the National Research Council (Conicet), Argentina. He is the author of The Formative Period of American Capitalism (Routledge, 2006) and is currently working on the history of German Social Democracy.