Russia : from proletarian revolution to state-capitalist counter-revolution : selected writings / by Raya Dunayevskaya ; edited by Eugene Gogol, Franklin Dmitryev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunayevskaya, Raya, author.

Contributor:

Gogol, Eugene, 1942- editor.

Dmitryev, Franklin, editor.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 108.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 1573-4234 ; Volume 108

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--History.

Socialism.

Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (498 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

Russia: From Proletarian Revolution to State-Capitalist Counter-Revolution is a selection of writings by the Marxist-Humanist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya, which begins with an examination of Lenin’s Hegel Notebooks, his philosophic preparation for proletarian revolution, followed by a section on “What Happens After” the revolution--the first years post 1917. Analyses of Trotsky, Stalin, Bukharin, and Luxemburg are presented. A key section is “Russia’s Transformation into Opposite: The Theory of State-Capitalism.” Opposition to Russian state-capitalism such as the 1953 East Germany Revolt and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution are described. Mao’s China as another form of state-capitalism, as well as the Sino-Soviet conflict, is discussed. The study ends with a “battle of ideas” with other analyses of the Revolution and its aftermath.

Contents:

Introduction / Eugene Gogol , Terry Moon and Franklin Dmitryev

Philosophic Preparation for Revolution: The Significance of Lenin’s Hegel Notebooks

Translation of and Commentary on Lenin’s “Abstract of Hegel’s Science of Logic”

Dunayevskaya’s Changed Perception of Lenin’s Philosophic Ambivalence, 1986–87

On the Meaning of Lenin’s “Great Divide in Marxism”; Contrast with Trotsky, Bukharin, Luxemburg

Lenin on Self-determination of Nations and on Organization After His Philosophic Notebooks

On Trotsky

On Bukharin

On Luxemburg

On Women Revolutionaries in Russia

What Happens After?—Lenin 1917–1923

The Trade Union Debate and Lenin’s Will

Russia’s Transformation into Opposite: The Theory of State-Capitalism

The Development of State-Capitalist Theory in the 1940s

From State-Capitalist Theory to Marxist-Humanism, 1950s–1980s

From the State-Capitalist Tendency to the Birth of a Marxist-Humanist Organization—New Stage of Production, New Stage of Cognition, New Kind of Organization

On Stalin

The Beginning of the End of Russian Totalitarianism

Post-Stalin Russia

On Mao’s China

The Sino-Soviet Split

The Cuban Revolution and What Happens After?

State-Capitalism as a “New Stage of World Capitalism” vs. The Humanism of Marx

Battle of Ideas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34761-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004347618 DOI