1st Edition
On Trotskyism (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 58)
By Kostas Mavrakis
Copyright 2010
272 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
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Trotsky --brilliant publicist, enthusiastic speaker, organizer of the Red Army, eminent member of the Bolshevik Party during the first years of the Russian Revolution--has often been depicted as a romantic figure by biographers. Kostas Mavrakis does not see him in this light. Mavrakis submits Trotsky , his thought and work to a severe but fair critical examination. Among the issues reassessed by... Read more
1. Biographical Landmarks 2. An Atemporal Dogmatism 3. Trotsky’s Incapacity for Concrete Analysis 4. A Bureaucratic Anti-Bureaucratism 5. Revisionist Degeneration or Cultural Revolution 6. Stalin and Trotsky on the Chinese Revolution 7. The Defeat of the Greek Commmunists 8. Conclusion: The Fundamental Traits of Trotskyism 9. Critical Notes on Some Trotskyist Organisations Appendices 1. The USSR, Peaceful Co-Existence and Vietnam 2. The JCR in May-June 1968 3. Ch’En Tu-Hsiu’s Ideological Itinerary
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Kostas Mavrakis
