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Author Marot, John Eric

Title The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect : Interventions in Russian and Soviet History
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (283 pages)
Series Historical Materialism Book Series
Historical materialism book series
Contents Acknowledgements; Chapter One The Peasant-Question and the Origins of Stalinism: Rethinking the Destruction of the October Revolution; Chapter Two Trotsky, the Left Opposition and the Rise of Stalinism: Theory and Practice; Chapter Three Class-Conflict, Political Competition and Social Transformation: Critical Perspectives on the Social History of the Russian Revolution; Chapter Four Political Leadership and Working-Class Agency in the Russian Revolution: Reply to William G. Rosenberg and S.A. Smith
Chapter Five A 'Postmodern' Approach to the Russian Revolution? Comment on Ronald SunyChapter Six Alexander Bogdanov, Vpered, and the Role of the Intellectual in the Workers' Movement; Chapter Seven The Bogdanov Issue: Reply to Andrzej Walicki, Aileen Kelly and Zenovia Sochor; Chapter Eight Marxism, Science, Materialism: Toward A Deeper Appreciation of the 1908-9 Philosophical Debate in Russian Social Democracy; Chapter Nine Politics and Philosophy in Russian Social Democracy: Alexander Bogdanov and the Socio-Theoretical Foundations of Vpered; References; Index
Summary John Marot tracks the development of Bolshevism from its inception in 1904 to the October Revolution in 1917. In the post-October period, the author, drawing on the work of Robert Brenner, shows that any NEP-premised programme of economic advance was destined to fail
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Bogdanov, A. (Aleksandr), 1873-1928.
SUBJECT Bogdanov, A. (Aleksandr), 1873-1928 fast
Subject Opposition (Political science) -- Soviet Union
Right and left (Political science) -- Soviet Union
Socialism -- Soviet Union
Labor unions -- Soviet Union
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Historiography
Labor unions
Opposition (Political science)
Right and left (Political science)
Socialism
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Historiography
Subject Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004229877
9004229876