Year: 2016
Author: Thomas M. Twiss
Genre or theme: history of the USSR, history of the RSFSR, political science
Publisher: Brill
ISBN: 9789004269521, 9789004269538, 9004269533, 9789004269538
English language
Format: PDF
Number of pages: 502

During the twentieth century the problem of post-revolutionary bureaucracy emerged as the most pressing theoretical and political concern confronting Marxism. No one contributed more to the discussion of this question than Leon Trotsky. In Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy, Thomas M. Twiss traces the development of Trotsky’s thinking on this issue from the first years after the Bolshevik Revolution through the Moscow Trials of the 1930s. Throughout, he examines how Trotsky’s perception of events influenced his theoretical understanding of the problem, and how Trotsky’s theory reciprocally shaped his analysis of political developments. Additionally, Twiss notes both strengths and weaknesses of Trotsky’s theoretical perspective at each stage in its development.
Thomas M. Twiss, Ph.D. (2009), Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, is a Liaison Librarian at that university. He has published articles on Leon Trotsky and translations of a number of Trotsky's letters. Readership: Academic libraries, graduate students and faculty in History, Political Science, Sociology, Russian and East European Studies; and political activists on the left.

Introduction
1
Chapter 1 Bureaucracy before October
9
Chapter 2 Revolution and the Problems of Bureaucracy
41
Chapter 3 From Inefficiency to Political Alienation
95
Chapter 4 A Coherent Theory of Bureaucracy
139
Chapter 5 Left Turn and Theoretical Crisis
197
Chapter 6 The Turn and the Theoretical Crisis Deepen
256
Chapter 7 Theoretical Revolution
330
Chapter 8 The Final Theory
401
Chapter 9 Reconsidering Trotskys Theory
440
Bibliography
461
Index

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