Was There an Alternative? - Trotskyism: A Look Through the Years

Copyright
About the Author
Contents
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Foreword
Note from the Translator
Introduction
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1. The Birth of the One-Party System
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2. The Fight Against Privileges
3. Guaranteeing the Rights of a Dissenting Minority
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4. A “State of Siege” or Workers’ Democracy?
5. The Old Guard of the Party: Danger of a Split
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6. The General Secretary: Organizer and Mentor of the Bureaucracy
7. The “Testament”
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8. For Immediate Publication
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9. The “Georgian Incident” and the “Derzhimorda Regime”
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10. Fateful Days
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11. Trotsky’s Mistake
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12. Victory of the Triumvirate
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13. First Instances of Repression and the Monopoly on Power
14. Trotsky Goes on the Offensive
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15. Counter-Attack
16. The Struggle Continues
17. Two Discussions
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18. “The New Course”
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19. “My Illness Couldn’t Have Come at a Worse Time”
20. What Should the Party Regime Be Like?
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21. How Did the “Majority” Respond to the Opposition?
22. A Stalinist Forgery
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23. The Mechanics of the Apparatus
24. “The Liquidation of Any Discussion and Democracy”
25. “Psychological Murder”
26. “Super-Borgia in the Kremlin”
27. “The Seven”
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28. When Stalin’s Fate Was Being Decided
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29. The Tactic of a United Front
30. “The Lessons of October”
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31. The Birth of the Myth of “Trotskyism”
32. The Struggle within the “Seven”
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33. The Duumvirate
34. A Shift in Policy
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35. A New Split
36. The “New Opposition”
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37. “That’s Where the Party Is United”
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38. The “United Opposition”
39. Is The Victory of Socialism Possible in a Single Country?
40. Trotsky’s Multifaceted Prognosis
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41. Counting on World Revolution
42. The “Idyll” of the NEP
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43. “Super-Industrialization,” “Robbing the Peasantry,” and Popular Measures
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44. The Proletariat “Is Being Squeezed”
45. Methods of Struggle against the Opposition
46. The Final Stage of the Legal Struggle
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47. The Crisis Erupts
48. Theory and Practice of the Thermidorian Amalgam
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49. The “Collectivization Congress” “Finishes Off” the Opposition
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Conclusion
Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms
Dates of Party Congresses, Conferences, and Comintern Congresses
Selected Biographical Notes1