Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn

Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn
Author: Douglas Greene
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2023-03-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1666930903

This study examines the complicated legacy of Stalinism in the twentieth century. The descent of the Russian Revolution into Stalinism has given rise to an oft-accepted truism that revolutions are like Saturn and will devour their own children. For anticommunists, Stalinism is condemned as a “bolt from blue,” whether an insidious contagion, Big Brother, or totalitarian reason that socialism cannot escape from. On the other end, Communists and their fellow-travelers have seen Stalinism as a force of historical necessity and the only way for the working class to reach a communist society. Both these twin camps accept a Dialectic of Saturn where Stalinism, whether for evil or good, is the preordained fate of all socialist revolutions. However, there is another position that views Stalinism as the product of material circumstance and class struggle. This position was represented by Leon Trotsky in his seminal work The Revolution Betrayed. In contrast to those who accept a mystical dialectic of Saturn, Trotsky argued that Stalinism can be rationally explained and was not inevitable outcome of socialism.

Trotsky's Lies

Trotsky's Lies
Author: Grover Furr
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578521046

A revised and updated edition of the Introduction, and Chapters 13-16 of Grover Furr, Trotsky's 'Amalgams:' Trotsky's Lies, The Moscow Trials As Evidence, The Dewey Commission.

1937

1937
Author: Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin
Publisher: Mehring Books
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1998
Genre: Opposition (Political science)
ISBN: 0929087771

The first major study by a Russian Marxist Historian of the Stalinist purges which are often collectively reffered to by the year they reached their greatest intensity: 1937. Rogovin shows that the purges were aimed at the physical annihilation of the growing socialist opposition to Stalin's bureaucratic regime. Focused on Leon Trotsky and his thousands of supporters, the purges were a blow against the October Revolution, its leaders and its heritage.

Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy

Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy
Author: Thomas M. Twiss
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2014-05-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004269533

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.

Leon Trotsky's Collaboration with Germany and Japan

Leon Trotsky's Collaboration with Germany and Japan
Author: Grover Furr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2017-05
Genre: Revolutionaries
ISBN: 9780692945735

Professor Grover Furr's through examination of evidence regarding Leon Trotsky's collaboration with Japan and Germany while in Exile from the USSR.

Stalin Waiting for ... the Truth!

Stalin Waiting for ... the Truth!
Author: Grover Furr
Publisher: Red Star Publishers
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2019-01-25
Genre: Historiography
ISBN: 9780578445533

In October 2017 Stephen Kotkin, professor of history at Princeton University, published "Stalin. Waiting for Hitler, 1929 - 1941." In it, Kotkin accuses Soviet leader Joseph Stalin of dozens of terrible crimes and atrocities.The appearance of Kotkin's scholarship is daunting: 909 pages of text, more than 5200 footnotes, and 47 pages of bibliography in tiny, triple-column type. But Grover Furr has carefully and methodically studied every one of the hundreds of allegations of atrocity, crime, and misdeeds of any kind that Kotkin attributes to Stalin and his closest advisers. Furr has checked every reference, every article and book, that Kotkin cites as evidence. The result: Furr has found that every single "crime" Kotkin alleges is false - a fabrication. Not a single accusation holds up. On the evidence, Stalin committed NO crime, no atrocities - for if he had, Kotkin would surely have uncovered at least one. Furr's exhaustive research shows that Soviet history of the 1930s, has been falsified. Furr's book is a model of meticulous examination of evidence and careful, objective analysis and deduction."Stalin. Waiting For ... The Truth" exposes the lies and falsehoods behind Soviet history of the 1930s with the same meticulous attention to detail as his previous works: "Khrushchev Lied" (2011), "The Murder of Sergei Kirov" (2013), "Blood Lies" (2014), "Trotsky's 'Amalgams'" (2015), "Yezhov vs. Stalin" (2016), "Leon Trotsky's Collaboration with Germany and Japan" (2017), and "The Mystery of the Katyn Massacre; The Evidence, The Solution" (2018).

Trotskyism Counter-Revolution in Disguise

Trotskyism Counter-Revolution in Disguise
Author: M. J. Olgin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781961775091

This book presents an historical analysis of Trotsky, his role, and actions prior to the October Revolution in Russia and after the revolution. It shows the roots of Trotskyism and points out clearly its Anti-Leninist character. Throughout this work, Olgin breaks down the fundamentally wrong position of Trotsky on the basic questions of the proletarian revolution, socialist construction in the U.S.S.R. and the revolutionary movements in the colonies.Olgin lays bare the nondialectical, schematic approach of Trotsky to such questions as the social forces in the proletarian revolution and the role of the Communist Party. He also exposes Trotsky's theory of "permanent revolution" as a distortion of the Marxist-Leninist concept.