Witnesses to permanent revolution : the documentary record / edited and translated by Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Day, Richard B., 1942-

Gaido, Daniel.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; 21.

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; v. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940.

Trotsky, Leon.

Permanent revolution theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (696 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / R.B. Day

Introduction - The historical origin of the expression ‘permanent revolution’ / R.B. Day

Chapter One. ‘The slavs and revolution’ (1902) / Karl Kautsky

‘The slavs and revolution’ / R.B. Day

Chapter Two. The draft programme of ‘Iskra’ and the tasks of russian social democrats (1903) / N. Ryazanov

Chapter Three. ‘Orthodox’ pedantry (1903) / G.V. Plekhanov

Chapter Four. ‘To What Extent Is The Communist Manifesto obsolete?’ (First edition: 1903 – Revised edition: June 1906) / Karl Kautsky

Chapter Five. ‘Revolutionary questions’ (February 1904) / Karl Kautsky

Chapter Six. ‘What was accomplished on the ninth of january’ (January 1905) / Parvus

Chapter Seven. Up to the ninth of january (1905) / Leon Trotsky

Chapter Eight. ‘After the Petersburg uprising: What next?’ (Munich, 20 January [2 February] 1905) / Leon Trotsky

Chapter Nine. ‘The revolution in Russia’1 (28 January, 1905) / Rosa Luxemburg

Chapter Ten. ‘After the first act’ (4 February, 1905) / Rosa Luxemburg

Chapter Eleven. ‘The consequences of the japanese victory and social democracy’ (July 1905) / Karl Kautsky

Chapter Twelve. Introduction to Ferdinand Lassalle’s speech to the jury (July 1905) / Leon Trotsky

Chapter Thirteen. ‘Social democracy and revolution’ (25 November [12 November], 1905) / Leon Trotsky

Chapter Fourteen. ‘The revolution in permanence’ (1 November 1905) / Franz Mehring

Chapter Fifteen. The Next questions of our movement (September 1905) / N. Ryazanov

Chapter Sixteen. ‘Our tasks’ (13 November 1905) / Parvus

Chapter Seventeen. Foreword to Karl Marx, Parizhskaya Kommuna (December 1905) / Leon Trotsky

Chapter Eighteen. ‘The russian revolution’ (20 December 1905) / Rosa Luxemburg

Chapter Nineteen. ‘Old and new revolution’ (December 1905) / Karl Kautsky

Chapter Twenty. ‘The sans-culottes of the french revolution’ (1889, Reprinted december 1905) / Karl Kautsky

Chapter Twenty-One. ‘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

Chapter Twenty-Two. ‘The driving forces of the russian revolution and its prospects’ (November 1906) / Karl Kautsky

Chapter Twenty-Three. ‘The american worker’ (February 1906) / Karl Kautsky

References / R.B. Day

Index / R.B. Day.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [663]-677) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39916-0

9786612399169

90-474-4193-1

OCLC:

593236637

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004167704.i-684 DOI