The Dictatorship of the ProletariatKautsky's assault on the dictatorship of the proletariat as practiced by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution is one of the most remarkable and controversial documents in the history of Marxism. Written in 1918, it brought attacks from Trotsky and Bukharin and provoked Lenin to Write The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky. |
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DICTATORSHIP | 42 |
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY AND SOVIET | 59 |
THE SOVIET REPUBLIC | 70 |
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