Was There an Alternative? - Trotskyism: A Look Through the Years

Description

Copyright About the Author Contents Photo Plate 1 Foreword Note from the Translator Introduction Photo Plate 2 1. The Birth of the One-Party System Photo Plate 3 Photo Plate 4 2. The Fight Against Privileges 3. Guaranteeing the Rights of a Dissenting Minority Photo Plate 5 4. A “State of Siege” or Workers’ Democracy? 5. The Old Guard of the Party: Danger of a Split Photo Plate 6 6. The General Secretary: Organizer and Mentor of the Bureaucracy 7. The “Testament” Photo Plate 7 8. For Immediate Publication Photo Plate 8 9. The “Georgian Incident” and the “Derzhimorda Regime” Photo Plate 9 10. Fateful Days Photo Plate 10 11. Trotsky’s Mistake Photo Plate 11 12. Victory of the Triumvirate Photo Plate 12 13. First Instances of Repression and the Monopoly on Power 14. Trotsky Goes on the Offensive Photo Plate 14 15. Counter-Attack 16. The Struggle Continues 17. Two Discussions Photo Plate 15 18. “The New Course” Photo Plate 16 19. “My Illness Couldn’t Have Come at a Worse Time” 20. What Should the Party Regime Be Like? Photo Plate 17 21. How Did the “Majority” Respond to the Opposition? 22. A Stalinist Forgery Photo Plate 18 23. The Mechanics of the Apparatus 24. “The Liquidation of Any Discussion and Democracy” 25. “Psychological Murder” 26. “Super-Borgia in the Kremlin” 27. “The Seven” Photo Plate 19 28. When Stalin’s Fate Was Being Decided Photo Plate 20 29. The Tactic of a United Front 30. “The Lessons of October” Photo Plate 21 31. The Birth of the Myth of “Trotskyism” 32. The Struggle within the “Seven” Photo Plate 22 33. The Duumvirate 34. A Shift in Policy Photo Plate 23 Photo Plate 24 35. A New Split 36. The “New Opposition” Photo Plate 26 37. “That’s Where the Party Is United” Photo Plate 27 38. The “United Opposition” 39. Is The Victory of Socialism Possible in a Single Country? 40. Trotsky’s Multifaceted Prognosis Photo Plate 28 Photo Plate 29 Photo Plate 30 41. Counting on World Revolution 42. The “Idyll” of the NEP Photo Plate 31 43. “Super-Industrialization,” “Robbing the Peasantry,” and Popular Measures Photo Plate 32 44. The Proletariat “Is Being Squeezed” 45. Methods of Struggle against the Opposition 46. The Final Stage of the Legal Struggle Photo Plate 33 47. The Crisis Erupts 48. Theory and Practice of the Thermidorian Amalgam Photo Plate 34 49. The “Collectivization Congress” “Finishes Off” the Opposition Photo Plate 35 Conclusion Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms Dates of Party Congresses, Conferences, and Comintern Congresses Selected Biographical Notes1