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• Leon Trotsky and the struggle for liberation
• From workers' revolution to bureaucratic dictatorship
• Workers' united front: against fascisim and reformism
• Imperialism and global revolution
• Bracing for the storm.

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• 1. Two lectures on Leon Trotsky's life & ideas
• Toward a reconsideration of Trotsky's place in the history of the 20th century
• Leon Trotsky, Soviet historiography, and the fate of classical Marxism
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• 2. The post-Soviet school of historical falsification : a review of two biographies of Leon Trotsky by Professors Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
• Stalin's terror & the political lie
• Swain, Thatcher, & the myth of Trotsky
• Thatcher's method of historical falsification
• When lies are told against history
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• 3. Robert Service's contribution to the falsification of history
• The "big lie" continues
• Political biography & the historical lie
• Trotsky's enduring significance
• The biographer as character assassin.

• Preface Introduction
• 1 Bureaucracy before October 1.1 Evolving meanings of bureaucracy 1.2 Bureaucracy in Russia 1.3 Marx and Engels on bureaucracy 1.4 After Marx and Engels 1.5 Conclusion
• 2 Revolution and the Problems of Bureaucracy 2.1 The dream deferred 2.2 The oppositions and political alienation 86 2.3 Lenin on political alienation and inefficiency 2.4 Trotsky and bureaucratic inefficiency 2.5 Conclusion
• 3 From Inefficiency to Political Alienation 3.1 Conflicts within the party leadership 3.2 Inefficiency and political alienation 3.3 The New Course controversy 3.4 Trotsky and the New Course 3.5 Political defeat and theoretical retreat 3.6 Conclusion
• 4 A Coherent Theory of Bureaucracy 4.1 The formation of the United Opposition 4.2 The struggle of the United Opposition 4.3 Trotsky and the Opposition on bureaucratism 4.4 On the eve of Thermidor 4.5 Conclusion
• 5 Left Turn and Theoretical Crisis 5.1 The beginning of the turn 5.2 Explaining the turn 5.3 The Stalinist offensive 5.4 Explaining the offensive 5.5 Defeating the right and continuing the turn 5.6 Explaining the new turn 5.7 Revising the theory 5.8 Conclusion
• 6 The Turn and the Theoretical Crisis Deepen 6.1 Economic upheaval 6.2 Trotsky's response to the turn 6.3 The left course in the Comintern 6.4 Trotsky and the Comintern's new strategy 6.5 Developments in the party regime 6.6 Trotsky and the regime 6.7 Modifying the theory 6.8 Conclusion
• 7 Theoretical Revolution 7.1 Breaking with the past 7.2 Revising the theory 7.3 New policy shifts 7.4 The Kirov assassination 7.5 Reinterpreting Bonapartism and Thermidor 7.6 Deeper shifts, repression, and a constitution 7.7 Conclusion
• 8 The Final Theory 8.1 The Revolution Betrayed 8.2 Applying the theory 8.3 Conclusion
• 9 Reconsidering Trotsky's Theory 9.1 The development of Trotsky's views 9.2 Evaluating the theory Bibliography Index.
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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.
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• Contents
• List of Abbreviations Introduction
• 1: Trotsky's Theory of Revolution 1.1 Uneven and combined development 1.2 Permanent revolution 1.3 Critical perspectives on permanent revolution 1.4 Theorising revolutionary crises 1.5 Permanent revolution since Trotsky 1.6 Conclusion
• 2: Trotsky on Spain 2.1 Spain's uneven and combined development 2.2 The problems of revolutionary agency 2.3 War and revolution 2.4 Conclusion
• 3: Revolutionary Marxists in Spain, 1930-1934 95 3.1 From socialism and syndicalism to revolutionary Marxism 96 3.2 Nin and the problems of the Spanish Revolution 100 3.3 Maurin and the problems of the Spanish Revolution 106 3.4 Areas of divergence and convergence 113 3.5 Conclusion 117
• 4: The Threat of Fascism and the Challenge of Workers' Unity 119 4.1 The Spanish workers' movement 120 4.2 The threat of fascism 134 4.3 Entryism or fusion? 142 4.4 Conclusion 146
• 5: Marxist Unity: The Creation of the POUM 149 5.1 Fusion or Absorption? 150 5.2 The POUM's Programme 151 5.3 Conclusion 156
• 6: The POUM and the Popular Front 159 6.1 The coming of the Popular Front 160 6.2 Military rising and revolutionary response 171 6.3 The Generalitat 176 6.4 Conclusion 182
• 7: Defending the Revolution 184 7.1 The campaign against the POUM 184 7.2 May 1937 193 7.3 The suppression of the POUM 199 7.4 Conclusion 203 Conclusion 209 Appendix: Historical Essay 218 Spain's transition to capitalism 218 Spain's bourgeois revolution 225 The workers' movement 232 The Second Republic 238 The Civil War 242 References Index.
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Revolutionary Marxism in Spain, 1930-1937 examines the impact of Trotsky's political thought upon those Spanish communists who dissented from the `general line' laid down by Moscow. Using Spanish sources it sets out the position of the POUM and engages with scholarly debates around its role in the Spanish Popular Front, Civil War and Revolution.
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