Revolution Besieged : Lenin 1917 - 1923 (Vol. 3)
ISBN: 9781608460878 | 1608460878
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pub. Date: 8/7/2012
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When Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik party led the first successful workers revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work was finished with the overthrow of capitalism in Russia. As the fledgling workers' state was gripped by a civil war, the revolution's leaders remained steadfast in their commitment to spreading their successes across all of Europe. Tony Cliff(1917-2000) spent his life developing revolutionary Marxism against Stalinism. From his early days as a revolutionary in British-occupied Palestine to the high poi... MORE
| Foreword | p. ix |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xiii |
| Congresses of the Party, Soviets, Trade Unions and the Communist International | p. xv |
| The Bolshevik Government's First Steps | p. 1 |
| The Consolidation of Power | p. 22 |
| Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly | p. 29 |
| The Peace of Brest-Litovsk | p. 38 |
| Transition from Capitalism to Socialism | p. 55 |
| 'We... MORE | p. 66 |
| War Communism (1918-1921) | p. 81 |
| The Heroic and the Tragic Intertwine | p. 99 |
| The Proletariat Under War Communism | p. 112 |
| War Communism and the Peasantry | p. 129 |
| The Withering Away of the State? | p. 144 |
| The Establishment of the Bolsheviks' Political Monopoly | p. 161 |
| Transformation of the Party | p. 179 |
| Lenin and the Military Front | p. 194 |
| The Rise of the Communist International | p. 207 |
| The Proletarian Assault Rebuffed - the Need for a New Policy | p. 218 |
| The Comintern - a School for Tactics | p. 229 |
| Lenin, Bolshevism and the Comintern | p. 251 |
| The Grafting of Bolshevism Fails | p. 271 |
| Britain and Bulgaria - Two Antipodes | p. 284 |
| The Great Cover-up | p. 316 |
| The Bolshevik Regime in Crisis | p. 327 |
| The New Economic Policy | p. 344 |
| The Defeat of the German Revolution | p. 367 |
| Lenin Fights for his Life-Work | p. 394 |
| Fighting to the Last Breath … | p. 412 |
| The Final Defeat | p. 423 |
| Notes | p. 443 |
| Chronology | p. 465 |
| Index | p. 473 |
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