The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet HistoryJohn Eric Marot In a series of probing analytical essays, John Marot tracks the development of Bolshevism through the prism of pre-1917 intra-Russian Social Democratic controversies in politics and philosophy. For 1917, the author presents a critique of social historical interpretation of the Russian Revolution. Turning to NEP Russia, the author applies Robert Brenner's analysis of pre-capitalist modes of production and concludes that neither Bukharin nor Trotsky's NEP-premised programs of economic transformation and advance toward socialism were feasible. At the same time, he rejects the view that Stalinism was pre-destined to supplant NEP. Instead, he hypothesises that the superior alternative to Stalinism was NEP without collectivization and the Five-Year Plans a outcome that would have been possible had Bukharin and Trotsky joined forces to stop Stalin. |
Contents
Rethinking the Destruction of the October Revolution | 11 |
Theory and Practice | 87 |
Critical Perspectives on the Social History of the Russian Revolution | 117 |
Reply to William G Rosenberg and SA Smith | 166 |
Chapter Five A Postmodern Approach to the Russian Revolution? Comment on Ronald Suny | 181 |
Chapter Six Alexander Bogdanov Vpered and the Role of the Intellectual in the Workers Movement | 187 |
Reply to Andrzej Walicki Aileen Kelly and Zenovia Sochor | 211 |
Toward A Deeper Appreciation of the 19089 Philosophical Debate in Russian Social Democracy | 220 |
Alexander Bogdanov and the SocioTheoretical Foundations of Vpered | 238 |
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