Year of Publication: 2015
Author: Frederick Corney
Genre or theme: History, Trotsky
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 978-90-04-30666-0
Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
English language
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 856
In Trotsky’s Challenge: The ‘Literary Discussion’ of 1924 and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution, Corney has translated, annotated, and introduced the major contributions to the infamous Soviet polemic of 1924 triggered by The Lessons of October, his controversial analysis of the revolution.
Contents
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction: Anatomy of a Polemic 1
Document 1: ‘The Lessons of October’ (14 October 1924) 86
L. Trotsky
Document 2: ‘Who Carried Out the October Revolution? (On the “History”
of October in L. Trotsky’s Book 1917)’ (30 October 1924) 139
I. Stepanov
Document 3: ‘How the History of October Must not be Written (On
L. Trotsky’s Book 1917)’ (2 November 1924) 147
N. Bukharin
Document 4: ‘The Komsomol and October (On Comrade Trotsky’s “The
Lessons of October”)’ (12 November 1924) 163
Central, Moscow, and Leningrad Committees of Komsomol
Document 5: ‘On the Intolerable Distortion of Historical Facts (On
Comrade Trotsky’s Article “The Uprising”)’ (15 November 1924) 169
D. Lebed’
Document 6: ‘How Should the History of October be Approached?
(Comrade Trotsky’s “The Lessons of October”)’ (19 November 1924) 176
G. Sokol’nikov
Document 7: ‘On Comrade Trotsky’s “The Lessons of October”’
(25 November 1924) 188
N. Babakhan
Document 8: ‘Trotskyism or Leninism? Report by Comrade L.B. Kamenev’
(26 November 1924) 199
L. Kamenev
Document 9: ‘Trotskyism or Leninism?’ (26 November 1924) 260
I. Stalin
Document 10: ‘Our Differences’ (November 1924) 283
L. Trotsky
Document 11: ‘Bolshevism or Trotskyism (Where the Trotskyist Line is
Leading)’ (30 November 1924) 322
G. Zinoviev
Document 12: ‘An Unsuccessful Depiction of the “German October”
(Comrade Trotsky’s “The Lessons of October”)’ (30 November 1924) 365
O. Kuusinen
Document 13: ‘On the Lessons of Trotskyism (L. Trotsky’s Book Lenin)’
(9 December 1924) 387
V. Molotov
Document 14: The Chkheidze Controversy (9 December 1924) 421
Document 15: ‘The Question of the Lessons of October’ (16 December
1924) 427
N. Krupskaia
Document 16: ‘The October Revolution and the Tactics of Russian
Communists’ (17 December 1924) 432
I. Stalin
Document 17: ‘“The Lessons of October” and the Bulgarian Communist
Party’ (20 December 1924) 464
V. Kolarov
Document 18: ‘Letter to Comrades’ (21 December 1924) 481
Leopol’d Averbakh, et al.
Document 19: ‘The Autobiography of Trotskyism’ (22 December 1924) 485
G. Safarov
Document 20: ‘The Theory of Permanent Revolution. An Article by
Comrade N.I. Bukharin’ (28 December 1924) 514
N. Bukharin
Document 21: ‘To All the Members of the Central Committee Who are
Enemies of Trotskyism’ (1924) 555
N. Bukharin
Document 22: ‘“The New Discussion”. An Article by Com. A.I. Rykov’
(28 December 1924) 570
A.I. Rykov
Document 23: ‘Not Every Effort is Successful’ (1925) 576
A. Andreev
Document 24: ‘Letter from Comrade Trotsky to the Plenum of the Central
Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik)’ (15 January
1925) 582
L. Trotsky
Document 25: ‘Resolution of the Plenums of the Central Committee of the
Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) and of the Central Control
Commission on the Actions of Comrade Trotsky’ (17 January 1925) 586
Document 26: ‘Mistakes in “The Lessons of October” by Comrade Trotsky’
(January 1925) 595
S.A. Piontkovskii
Document 27: ‘Lenin, Conspiratoriality, October’ (1925) 607
E. Kviring
Document 28: ‘The Ideological Foundations of Trotskyism’ (1925) 619
B. Kun
Document 29: ‘“The Lessons of October” and Trotskyism’ (1925) 647
A. Bubnov
Document 30: ‘The Struggle for the Party’ (January 1925) 681
S. Kanatchikov
Appendix 1: Introduction to ‘The Lessons of the Revolution’ (28 December
1924) 689
Paul Levi
Appendix 2: ‘The Lessons of the October Experiment’ (1925) 696
Karl Kautsky
Glossary 703
Bibliography 801
Index 822
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