Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment : Russia, Turkey, Spain, Bolivia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
- Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.122 .
- Historical Materialism Book Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Agrarian Question in the Russian Revolution: From Material Community to Productivism, and Back -- Chapter 2. 'Socialism in One Country' before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary 'Anti-Imperialism': The Case of Turkey, 1917-25 -- Chapter 3. The Spanish Revolution, Past and Future -- Grandeur and Poverty of Anarchism -- How the Working Class Takes Over (or Doesn't), Then and Now -- Chapter 4. Anti-Capitalism or Anti-Imperialism? Interwar Authoritarian and Fascist Sources of a Reactionary Ideology: The Case of the Bolivian MNR -- References -- Index.
The historical studies presented here examine four ideologies--Leninism, Trotskyism, anarchism , and anti-imperialism-- still with us, if diffusely. They attempt to overcome the legacies of the Second, Third and Fourth Internationals, and of "real existing socialism", in the Soviet Union and elsewhere.