The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect
Interventions in Russian and Soviet History
Biographical note
John Eric Marot, Ph.D. (1987), University of California, Los Angeles, teaches History at Keimyung University in Korea. He has published many articles on Russian and Soviet History, notably “Class Conflict, Political Competition, and Social Transformation: Critical Perspectives on the Social History of the Russian Revolution” (Revolutionary Russia, 1994) and “Trotsky, the Left Opposition, and the Rise of the Stalinism: Theory and Practice” (Historical Materialism, 2006).
Readership
This work will appeal to those interested in the fate of the October Revolution.
Reviews
This is a very important book, one of the very few books published since 1991 on the “Russian question” that will compel people (this reviewer included) long wedded to different characterizations of the post-1917 or post-1929 Soviet regime to think through their commitments.
Loren Goldner, Insurgent Notes. Journal of Communist Theory and Practice, Fall 2012
Loren Goldner, Insurgent Notes. Journal of Communist Theory and Practice, Fall 2012
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Peasant-Question and the Origins of Stalinism: Rethinking the Destruction of the October Revolution
2. Trotsky, the Left Opposition and the Rise of Stalinism: Theory and Practice
3. Class-Conflict, Political Competition and Social Transformation: Critical Perspectives on the Social History of the Russian Revolution
4. Political Leadership and Working-Class Agency in the Russian Revolution: Reply to William G. Rosenberg and S.A. Smith
5. A ‘Postmodern’ Approach to the Russian Revolution? Comment on Ronald Suny
6. Alexander Bogdanov, Vpered, and the Role of the Intellectual in the Workers’ Movement
7. The Bogdanov Issue: Reply to Andrzej Walicki, Aileen Kelly and Zenovia Sochor
8. Marxism, Science, Materialism: Toward a Deeper Appreciation of the 1908–1909 Philosophical Debate in Russian Social Democracy
9. Politics and Philosophy in Russian Social Democracy: Alexander Bogdanov and the Socio-theoretical Foundations of Vpered
References
General Index
Introduction
1. The Peasant-Question and the Origins of Stalinism: Rethinking the Destruction of the October Revolution
2. Trotsky, the Left Opposition and the Rise of Stalinism: Theory and Practice
3. Class-Conflict, Political Competition and Social Transformation: Critical Perspectives on the Social History of the Russian Revolution
4. Political Leadership and Working-Class Agency in the Russian Revolution: Reply to William G. Rosenberg and S.A. Smith
5. A ‘Postmodern’ Approach to the Russian Revolution? Comment on Ronald Suny
6. Alexander Bogdanov, Vpered, and the Role of the Intellectual in the Workers’ Movement
7. The Bogdanov Issue: Reply to Andrzej Walicki, Aileen Kelly and Zenovia Sochor
8. Marxism, Science, Materialism: Toward a Deeper Appreciation of the 1908–1909 Philosophical Debate in Russian Social Democracy
9. Politics and Philosophy in Russian Social Democracy: Alexander Bogdanov and the Socio-theoretical Foundations of Vpered
References
General Index
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