Bolshevism - The Road to Revolution Share TweetThere have been many books and potted histories of Russia, either written from an anti-Bolshevik perspective, or its Stalinist mirror image, which paint a false account of the rise of Bolshevism. For them, Bolshevism is either an historical "accident" or "tragedy". Or it is portrayed erroneously as the work of one great man (Lenin) who marched single-minded towards the October Revolution. Alan Woods, in rejecting these "theses", reveals the real evolution of Bolshevism as a living struggle to apply the methods of Marxism to the peculiarities of Russia. Using a wealth of primary sources, Alan Woods uncovers the fascinating growth and development of Bolshevism in pre-revolutionary Russia.A History of the Bolshevik Party by Alan WoodsPaperback copies of this book are available. If you have a credit or debit card, Wellred Books Online is currently selling the book at the special price of £9.95. They accept all currencies and will deliver anywhere in the world. If you don't have a credit or debit card please check out the other ways of getting the book below. Buy this book online from Wellred BooksFor convenience the parts are divided up into a number of pages: these divisions do not appear in the printed book.ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Explanatory Notes Part One: THE BIRTH OF RUSSIAN MARXISM The Death of an Autocrat 'Going to the People' 'Land and Freedom'The Birth of Russian Marxism The Emancipation of Labour Group Impasse of NarodnismCombined and Uneven Development The Period of Small Circles From Propaganda to Agitation The Jewish Workers' Movement The Petersburg League of Struggle The Turn of the Tide'Legal Marxism' Lenin and the Group for the Emancipation of Labour Economist Controversy Rabochaya Mysl' Bernstein's RevisionismThe First Congress of the RSDLP Rabocheye Dyelo The Birth of Iskra What is to be done? A new Awakening Tensions on the Editorial Board The Economists in RetreatThe Second Congress The Real Meaning of the 1903 Split Confusion in the RanksRosa Luxemburg War with Japan The Mensheviks and the Zemstvo Campaign Trotsky's Break with the Mensheviks Splits in the Majority Part Two: THE FIRST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION The 9th January, 1905 'Zubatovism' Father Gapon The Putilov Strike Bloody SundayRevolution Begins The Shidlovsky Commission United Front Lenin and the 'Committee-Men' The Third Congress Conflicts at the Congress How the Party Financed ItselfRevolutionary Flood Tide The Bulygin Duma The October Strike and the Soviet The Bolsheviks and the Soviet The October Manifesto'Nicholas the Bloody' Opening up the Party The Party Press Trotsky in 1905The Moscow Uprising Defeat Part Three: THE PERIOD OF REACTION 'Woe to the Vanquished The Struggle Against Unemployment Revolutionary Tactics Reunification The debate on the Land QuestionBolshevism and Menshevism The Peasants' Revolt To Boycott, or Not to Boycott? Parliamentary IllusionsThe Duma Dissolved The Question of 'Guerrilla War' Lenin's Attitude to Guerrillaism The Stolypin Reaction Crises and Splits The Second DumaThe Fifth (London) Congress The Debate on the Bourgeois Parties The Permanent Revolution Lenin's Position The 3rd June CoupLiquidationism and Otzovism Mood of Intelligentsia Alien Ideas The Bolsheviks Split 'We have no people at all' The Pro-Party Mensheviks Tensions in ProletaryTrotsky and Conciliationism The January Plenum 'Unity' Breaks Down On the Eve Part Four: THE REVIVAL A Brief Interregnum Mass Work Under Conditions of Reaction The Prague Conference The Provocateur MalinovskyAfter the Conference A New Awakening Lenin and Pravda Elections to the Fourth Duma Bolsheviks in the Duma Tactics in the DumaRevolutionary Upswing 'The Masses Have Now Grown Up' Split in the Duma Group The National Question Lenin on the National QuestionThe Balkan Wars The Gathering Storm The Bolsheviks' Influence Grows The Bolsheviks on the Eve of the War Part Five: THE WAR YEARS The Collapse of the Second International The Social Roots of Chauvinism Tendencies in Russian Social Democracy Lenin's PositionThe Mood of the Working Class The Party Decimated The Duma Faction Vacillations Among the Bolsheviks The 'Left' BolsheviksImperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism The Trial of Bolshevik Duma Deputies Closed Frontiers German IntriguesHow Did the Party Survive? Catastrophe at the Front Bolsheviks in the Armed Forces The Liberals Begin to StirThe Turn of the Tide Crisis of Tsarism Change of Mood Work Among Women Pacifist GesturesThe Zimmerwald Conference The Kienthal Conference Part Six: THE YEAR OF REVOLUTION The February Revolution The Bolsheviks in FebruaryThe Mensheviks and the February Revolution The Bolsheviks and the Provisional Government Lenin and Trotsky in 1917Lenin Rearms the Party The First Coalition'All Power to the Soviets' The June DaysThe July Days After the July Events Lenin Changes His Mind Trotsky and the Bolshevik PartyThe Kornilov Rebellion The Struggle for the Masses Tactics of the Insurrection Crisis of LeadershipThe Question of the Soviet Congress The Final Chapter The Seizure of Power Was October a Coup? The Triumph of Bolshevism The Struggle at the Congress Bibliography Index of Names"Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution" is intended as a companion volume to Ted Grant's "Russia: from Revolution to Counter-Revolution".The online publication of this book is part of the In Defence of Marxism project. If you think you can help us in any way have a look at these suggestions.The author is pleased to recieve comments and criticisms. ContactHow to buy a copy of "Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution"The book, which is nearly 600 pages long has a retail price of £15 in Britain, but you can get a special price if you buy it directly from us. Online by credit or debit card Wellred Books Online is currently selling the book at the special price of £9.95. They accept all currencies and will deliver anywhere in the world. 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