The Russian Revolution and the unfinished twentieth century
By: David North
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781893638402
Subjects: Politics and government; Historiography; Revolutions; World politics; Modern History; Capitalism; Socialism; History
Description: "David North argues that, to the extent that the twentieth century is defined as an epoch of intense capitalist crisis, it is most appropriately characterized as 'unfinished.' The central economic, social and political contradictions that confront mankind at the start of the twenty-first century are essentially the same as those it confronted at the beginning of the twentieth"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section One. In defense of the Russian Revolution; title: The post-Soviet school of historical falsification; title: Was there an alternative to Stalinism?; title: Socialism, historical truth and the crisis of political thought in the United States; title: Section Two. The struggle for a socialist perspective; title: Leon Trotsky and the fate of socialism in the twentieth century; title: Reform and revolution in the epoch of imperialism; title: Marxism and the trade unions; title: Section Three. The origins of Marxism and the Bolshevik Party; title: The Russian Revolution and the unresolved historical problems of the twentieth century; title: The rise & crisis of socialism on the eve of the twentieth century; title: The origins of Bolshevism and What is to be done?; title: Marxism, history and the science of perspective; title: Section Four. The permanent revolution; title: Seventy years since the outbreak of World War II : causes, consequences and lessons; title: A significant contribution to an understanding of permanent revolution; title: Revolutions of 1848 & the historical foundations of Marxist strategy; title: Seventy-five years of the Fourth International; title: Section Five. In defense of the Marxist method : polemical reviews; title: Anti-semitism, fascism & the Holocaust; title: Hegel, Marx, Engels, and the origins of Marxism.