Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution by Alan Woods -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface to the second English edition

The debate with Orlando Figes Bolshevism in Havana – and Caracas Trotsky’s Stalin Decisive role of the party

List of Illustrations Why Study the History of Bolshevism?

Is a Party Needed? About the Present Work How the Bourgeois ‘Explain’ October The Stalin School of Falsification ‘New Lies for Old!’ Leninism and the Future

Explanatory Notes

On Russian Weights and Measurements On the Russian Calendar On Spelling A Brief Glossary

Part One: The Birth of Russian Marxism

The Death of an Autocrat ‘Going to the People’ ‘Land and Freedom’ The Birth of Russian Marxism The Emancipation of Labour Group Combined and Uneven Development The Period of Small Circles From Propaganda to Agitation The Jewish Workers’ Movement The Petersburg League of Struggle ‘Legal Marxism’ Lenin and the Group for the Emancipation of Labour The Economist Controversy Rabochaya Mysl’ Bernstein’s Revisionism The First Congress of the RSDLP Rabocheye Dyelo The Birth of Iskra What Is To Be Done? A New Awakening Tensions on the Editorial Board The Economists in Retreat The Second Congress The Real Meaning of the 1903 Split Confusion in the Ranks Rosa Luxemburg War with Japan Trotsky’s Break with the Mensheviks

Part Two: The First Russian Revolution

9 January, 1905 ‘Zubatovism’ Father Gapon The Putilov Strike Bloody Sunday Revolution Begins The Shidlovsky Commission Lenin and the ‘Committeemen’ The Third Congress How the Party Financed Itself Revolutionary Flood Tide The Bulygin Duma The October Strike and the Soviet The Bolsheviks and the Soviet ‘Nicholas the Bloody’ Opening up the Party The Party Press Trotsky in 1905 The Moscow Uprising Defeat

Part Three: The Period of Reaction

‘Woe to the Vanquished’ The Struggle Against Unemployment Revolutionary Tactics Reunification The Debate on the Land Question Bolshevism and Menshevism The Peasants’ Revolt To Boycott, or Not to Boycott? Parliamentary Illusions The Duma Dissolved The Question of Guerrilla War Lenin’s Attitude to Guerrillaism The Stolypin Reaction The Fifth (London) Congress The Debate on the Bourgeois Parties The Permanent Revolution The 3 June Coup Liquidationism and Otzovism Mood of the Intelligentsia The Bolsheviks Split The Pro-Party Mensheviks Tensions in Proletary Trotsky and Conciliationism The January Plenum ‘Unity’ Breaks Down On the Eve

Part Four: The Revival

A Brief Interregnum Mass Work Under Conditions of Reaction The Prague Conference The Provocateur Malinovsky After the Conference A New Awakening Lenin and Pravda Elections to the Fourth Duma Bolsheviks in the Duma Tactics in the Duma Revolutionary Upswing ‘The Masses Have Now Grown Up’ Split in the Duma Group The National Question Lenin on the National Question The Balkan Wars The Gathering Storm The Bolsheviks’ Influence Grows The Bolsheviks on the Eve of the War

Part Five: The War Years

The Collapse of the Second International The Social Roots of Chauvinism Tendencies in Russian Social Democracy Lenin’s Position The Mood of the Working Class The Party Decimated The Duma Fraction Vacillations Among the Bolsheviks The ‘Left’ Bolsheviks Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism The Trial of Bolshevik Duma Deputies Closed Frontiers German Intrigues How Did the Party Survive? Catastrophe at the Front Bolsheviks in the Armed Forces The Liberals Begin to Stir The Turn of the Tide Crisis of Tsarism Change of Mood Work Among Women Pacifist Gestures The Zimmerwald Conference The Kienthal Conference

Part Six: The Year of Revolution

The February Revolution The Bolsheviks in February The Mensheviks and the February Revolution The Bolsheviks and the Provisional Government Lenin and Trotsky in 1917 Lenin Rearms the Party The First Coalition ‘All Power to the Soviets’ The June Days The July Days After the July Events Lenin Changes His Mind Trotsky and the Bolshevik Party The Kornilov Rebellion The Struggle for the Masses Tactics of the Insurrection Crisis of Leadership The Question of the Soviet Congress The Final Chapter The Seizure of Power Was October a Coup? The Triumph of Bolshevism The Struggle at the Congress

Bibliography

Minutes Periodicals Consulted