Overview

Trotsky's analysis in Lessons of October ran counter to the efforts of Bolshevik leaders to depict October as a foundational event in which the Bolshevik Party, and its clear-sighted leader Lenin, played the major role in bringing about the revolution in Russia. With this volume Corney has made available the major contributions to the polemic that surrounded its publication.

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Author:   Frederick C. Corney
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Dimensions:   Width: 25.30cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.157kg
ISBN:  

9781608467044

ISBN 10:   160846704
Pages:   848
Publication Date:   16 May 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Anatomy of a Polemic Document 1: ‘The Lessons of October’ (14 October 1924), L. Trotsky Document 2: ‘Who Carried Out the October Revolution? (On the “History” of October in L. Trotsky’s book 1917’ (30 October 1924), I. Stepanov Document 3: ‘How the History of October Must Not Be Written (on L. Trotsky’s book 1917)’ (2 November 1924), N. Bukharin Document 4: ‘The Komsomol and October (on Comrade Trotsky’s “The Lessons of October”)’ (12 November 1924), Central, Moscow, and Leningrad Committees of Komsomol Document 5: ‘On the Intolerable Distortion of Historical Facts (Concerning Comrade Trotsky’s article “The Uprising”)’ (15 November 1924), D. Lebed’ Document 6: ‘How Should the History of October be Approached? (Comrade Trotsky’s “The Lessons of October”)’ (19 November 1924), G. Sokol’nikov Document 7: ‘On Comrade Trotsky’s ‘The Lessons of October’’ (25 November 1924), N. Babakhan Document 8: ‘Trotskyism or Leninism? Report by Comrade L.B. Kamenev’ (26 November 1924), L. Kamenev Document 9: ‘Trotskyism or Leninism’ (26 November 1924), I. Stalin Document 10: ‘Our Differences’ (November 1924), L. Trotsky Document 11: ‘Bolshevism or Trotskyism (Where the Trotskyist Line is Leading)’ (30 November 1924), G. Zinoviev Document 12: ‘An Unsuccessful Depiction of the “German October” (Comrade Trotsky’s “The Lessons of October”)’ (30 November 1924), O. Kuusinen Document 13: ‘On the Lessons of Trotskyism (L. Trotsky’s book About Lenin)’ (9 December 1924), V. Molotov Document 14: The Chkheidze Controversy (9 December 1924) Document 15: ‘The Question of the Lessons of October’ (16 December 1924), N. Krupskaia Document 16: ‘The October Revolution and the Tactics of Russian Communists’ (17 December 1924), I. Stalin Document 17: ‘“The Lessons of October” and the Bulgarian Communist Party’ (20 December 1924), V. Kolarov Document 18: ‘Letter to Comrades’ (21 December 1924), Leopol’d Averbakh, et al. Document 19: ‘The Autobiography of Trotskyism (instead of an afterword)’ (22 December 1924), G. Safarov Document 20: ‘The Theory of Permanent Revolution’ (28 December 1924), N. Bukharin Document 21: ‘To All the Members of the Central Committee Who Are Enemies of Trotskyism’ (1924), N. Bukharin Document 22: ‘The New Discussion’ (28 December 1924), A. Rykov Document 23: ‘Not Every Effort is Successful’ (1925), A. Andreev Document 24: ‘Letter to the Plenum of the CC RKP(b)’ (15 January 1925), L. Trotsky Document 25: ‘Plenum of the CC RKP(b) and TsKK regarding the Speech of Comrade Trotsky’ (17 January 1925) Document 26: ‘Mistakes in “The Lessons of October” by Comrade Trotsky’ (January 1925), S.A. Piontkovskii Document 27: ‘Lenin, Conspiratoriality, October’ (1925), E. Kviring Document 28: ‘The Ideological Foundations of Trotskyism’ (1925), B. Kun Document 29: ‘“The Lessons of October” and Trotskyism’ (1925), A. Bubnov Document 30: ‘The Struggle for the Party’ (January 1925), S. Kanatchikov Appendix A: Introduction to ‘The Lessons of the Revolution’ (28 December 1924), Paul Levi Appendix B: ‘The Lessons of the October Experiment’ (1925), Karl Kautsky Glossary Bibliography Index

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Frederick C. Corney, Ph.D. (1997), is Associate Professor of History at The College of William & Mary. He has published a monograph, Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1927 (Cornell, 2004), articles, and book and movie reviews on Russia and historical memory.

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