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Trotskyâs Challenge
The âLiterary Discussionâ of 1924 and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 114
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In Trotskyâs Challenge: The âLiterary Discussionâ of 1924 and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution, Frederick C. Corney examines the political polemic surrounding the publication of Trotskyâs The Lessons of October. Trotskyâs analysis ran counter to the efforts of Bolshevik leaders to fashion the narrative of October as a foundation event in which the Bolshevik Party, under the clear-sighted leadership of Lenin, played a major role in bringing about a radical socialist revolution in Russia. Corney has translated into English the major contributions to this polemic, annotated them, and written an extensive contextualising introduction, examining the polemic for its impact not only on the figure of Trotsky, but also on the changing political culture of the 1920s and 1930s.
Frederick C. Corney, Ph.D. (1997), is Associate Professor of History at The College of William & Mary. He has published a monograph, Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1927 (Cornell, 2004), articles, and book and movie reviews on Russia and historical memory.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Anatomy of a Polemic
Document 1: âThe Lessons of Octoberâ (14 October 1924), L. Trotsky
Document 2: âWho Carried Out the October Revolution? (On the âHistoryâ of October in L. Trotskyâs book 1917â (30 October 1924), I. Stepanov
Document 3: âHow the History of October Must Not Be Written (on L. Trotskyâs book 1917)â (2 November 1924), N. Bukharin
Document 4: âThe Komsomol and October (on Comrade Trotskyâs âThe Lessons of Octoberâ)â (12 November 1924), Central, Moscow, and Leningrad Committees of Komsomol
Document 5: âOn the Intolerable Distortion of Historical Facts (Concerning Comrade Trotskyâs article âThe Uprisingâ)â (15 November 1924), D. Lebedâ
Document 6: âHow Should the History of October be Approached? (Comrade Trotskyâs âThe Lessons of Octoberâ)â (19 November 1924), G. Sokolânikov
Document 7: âOn Comrade Trotskyâs âThe Lessons of Octoberââ (25 November 1924), N. Babakhan
Document 8: âTrotskyism or Leninism? Report by Comrade L.B. Kamenevâ (26 November 1924), L. Kamenev
Document 9: âTrotskyism or Leninismâ (26 November 1924), I. Stalin
Document 10: âOur Differencesâ (November 1924), L. Trotsky
Document 11: âBolshevism or Trotskyism (Where the Trotskyist Line is Leading)â (30 November 1924), G. Zinoviev
Document 12: âAn Unsuccessful Depiction of the âGerman Octoberâ (Comrade Trotskyâs âThe Lessons of Octoberâ)â (30 November 1924), O. Kuusinen
Document 13: âOn the Lessons of Trotskyism (L. Trotskyâs book About Lenin)â (9 December 1924), V. Molotov
Document 14: The Chkheidze Controversy (9 December 1924)
Document 15: âThe Question of the Lessons of Octoberâ (16 December 1924), N. Krupskaia
Document 16: âThe October Revolution and the Tactics of Russian Communistsâ (17 December 1924), I. Stalin
Document 17: ââThe Lessons of Octoberâ and the Bulgarian Communist Partyâ (20 December 1924), V. Kolarov
Document 18: âLetter to Comradesâ (21 December 1924), Leopolâd Averbakh, et al.
Document 19: âThe Autobiography of Trotskyism (instead of an afterword)â (22 December 1924), G. Safarov
Document 20: âThe Theory of Permanent Revolutionâ (28 December 1924), N. Bukharin
Document 21: âTo All the Members of the Central Committee Who Are Enemies of Trotskyismâ (1924), N. Bukharin
Document 22: âThe New Discussionâ (28 December 1924), A. Rykov
Document 23: âNot Every Effort is Successfulâ (1925), A. Andreev
Document 24: âLetter to the Plenum of the CC RKP(b)â (15 January 1925), L. Trotsky
Document 25: âPlenum of the CC RKP(b) and TsKK regarding the Speech of Comrade Trotskyâ (17 January 1925)
Document 26: âMistakes in âThe Lessons of Octoberâ by Comrade Trotskyâ (January 1925), S.A. Piontkovskii
Document 27: âLenin, Conspiratoriality, Octoberâ (1925), E. Kviring
Document 28: âThe Ideological Foundations of Trotskyismâ (1925), B. Kun
Document 29: ââThe Lessons of Octoberâ and Trotskyismâ (1925), A. Bubnov
Document 30: âThe Struggle for the Partyâ (January 1925), S. Kanatchikov
Appendix A: Introduction to âThe Lessons of the Revolutionâ (28 December 1924), Paul Levi
Appendix B: âThe Lessons of the October Experimentâ (1925), Karl Kautsky
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Anatomy of a Polemic
Document 1: âThe Lessons of Octoberâ (14 October 1924), L. Trotsky
Document 2: âWho Carried Out the October Revolution? (On the âHistoryâ of October in L. Trotskyâs book 1917â (30 October 1924), I. Stepanov
Document 3: âHow the History of October Must Not Be Written (on L. Trotskyâs book 1917)â (2 November 1924), N. Bukharin
Document 4: âThe Komsomol and October (on Comrade Trotskyâs âThe Lessons of Octoberâ)â (12 November 1924), Central, Moscow, and Leningrad Committees of Komsomol
Document 5: âOn the Intolerable Distortion of Historical Facts (Concerning Comrade Trotskyâs article âThe Uprisingâ)â (15 November 1924), D. Lebedâ
Document 6: âHow Should the History of October be Approached? (Comrade Trotskyâs âThe Lessons of Octoberâ)â (19 November 1924), G. Sokolânikov
Document 7: âOn Comrade Trotskyâs âThe Lessons of Octoberââ (25 November 1924), N. Babakhan
Document 8: âTrotskyism or Leninism? Report by Comrade L.B. Kamenevâ (26 November 1924), L. Kamenev
Document 9: âTrotskyism or Leninismâ (26 November 1924), I. Stalin
Document 10: âOur Differencesâ (November 1924), L. Trotsky
Document 11: âBolshevism or Trotskyism (Where the Trotskyist Line is Leading)â (30 November 1924), G. Zinoviev
Document 12: âAn Unsuccessful Depiction of the âGerman Octoberâ (Comrade Trotskyâs âThe Lessons of Octoberâ)â (30 November 1924), O. Kuusinen
Document 13: âOn the Lessons of Trotskyism (L. Trotskyâs book About Lenin)â (9 December 1924), V. Molotov
Document 14: The Chkheidze Controversy (9 December 1924)
Document 15: âThe Question of the Lessons of Octoberâ (16 December 1924), N. Krupskaia
Document 16: âThe October Revolution and the Tactics of Russian Communistsâ (17 December 1924), I. Stalin
Document 17: ââThe Lessons of Octoberâ and the Bulgarian Communist Partyâ (20 December 1924), V. Kolarov
Document 18: âLetter to Comradesâ (21 December 1924), Leopolâd Averbakh, et al.
Document 19: âThe Autobiography of Trotskyism (instead of an afterword)â (22 December 1924), G. Safarov
Document 20: âThe Theory of Permanent Revolutionâ (28 December 1924), N. Bukharin
Document 21: âTo All the Members of the Central Committee Who Are Enemies of Trotskyismâ (1924), N. Bukharin
Document 22: âThe New Discussionâ (28 December 1924), A. Rykov
Document 23: âNot Every Effort is Successfulâ (1925), A. Andreev
Document 24: âLetter to the Plenum of the CC RKP(b)â (15 January 1925), L. Trotsky
Document 25: âPlenum of the CC RKP(b) and TsKK regarding the Speech of Comrade Trotskyâ (17 January 1925)
Document 26: âMistakes in âThe Lessons of Octoberâ by Comrade Trotskyâ (January 1925), S.A. Piontkovskii
Document 27: âLenin, Conspiratoriality, Octoberâ (1925), E. Kviring
Document 28: âThe Ideological Foundations of Trotskyismâ (1925), B. Kun
Document 29: ââThe Lessons of Octoberâ and Trotskyismâ (1925), A. Bubnov
Document 30: âThe Struggle for the Partyâ (January 1925), S. Kanatchikov
Appendix A: Introduction to âThe Lessons of the Revolutionâ (28 December 1924), Paul Levi
Appendix B: âThe Lessons of the October Experimentâ (1925), Karl Kautsky
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
All interested in the history of Marxism and Leninism, Russian Revolutionary history, early Soviet Russia, cultural history, and especially in the figure of Leon Trotsky and the early Bolshevik leaders.