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Lenin, Trotsky and the Theory of the Permanent Revolution

John Peter Roberts2007

A critical comparison of Lenin and Trotsky’s writings on permanent revolution and a defence of the theory against revisionist interpretations.

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Contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Abbreviations and Explanatory Notes
  3. Introduction

Chapter 1 – Lenin, Trotsky and the Revolutionary Party (1903)

  1. 1.1 Introduction
  2. 1.2 Lenin
  3. 1.3 Lenin’s Conception of the Party
  4. 1.4 Trotsky Arrives
  5. 1.5 The 1903 Second Congress of the RDSLP

Chapter 2 – Lenin and Trotsky in the First Russian Revolution (1905)

  1. 2.1 Introduction
  2. 2.2 Bloody Sunday to the General Strike
  3. 2.3 The October Strike and Formation of the St Petersburg Soviet
  4. 2.4 The Bolsheviks and the Soviet
  5. 2.5 The Struggle for the 8-Hour Day
  6. 2.6 The Moscow Uprising
  7. 2.7 Lessons Learned

Chapter 3 Lenin and the Revolutionary-Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry

  1. 3.1 Introduction
  2. 3.2 The Peasants Replace the Liberal Bourgeoisie as a Major Driving Force in the Russian Democratic Revolution
  3. 3.3 Social Democrats in a Revolutionary Government?
  4. 3.4 Prospects for a Socialist Revolution
  5. 3.5 What Form for the RDDPP?
  6. 3.6 Inner Tensions in the RDDPP
  7. 3.7 Lenin and the Peasantry

Chapter 4 – Trotsky and the Theory of the Permanent Revolution

  1. 4.1 Introduction
  2. 4.2 What is the Theory of Permanent Revolution?
  3. 4.3 Who Would Make the Revolution?
  4. 4.4 What Kind of Revolution?
  5. 4.5 The Proletariat and the Revolution
  6. 4.6 The Proletariat in Power and the Peasantry
  7. 4.7 The Proletarian Regime
  8. 4.8 A Workers’ Government in Russia, and Socialism
  9. 4.9 What was Innovative in the Theory of Permanent Revolution?
  10. 4.10 Which Class Would Lead the Revolution?
  11. 4.11 Comparison with the Revolutionary Democratic Dictatorship

Chapter 5 - 1917: From the April Theses to the October, Proletarian Revolution

  1. 5.1Introduction
  2. 5.2 February, the Letters from Afar and the April Theses
  3. 5.3 Trotsky in Early 1917
  4. 5.4 The April Conferences
  5. 5.5 “All Power to the Soviets”
  6. 5.6 July Days and Consequences
  7. 5.7 The Class Character of the October 1917 Revolution and the Nature of the Resulting State

Chapter 6 Lenin said so Himself

  1. 6.1 Introduction
  2. 6.2 Contra-Proposals
  3. 6.3 Lenin’s Considered Opinion
  4. 6.4 The Communist International
  5. 6.5 References

Chapter 7 – Constituent Assembly or Commune-type State?

  1. 7.1 Introduction
  2. 7.2 The Slogan of the Constituent Assembly, 1903 to February 1917
  3. 7.3 The Constituent Assembly – the Goal of the Revolution?
  4. 7.4 Lenin, the October Revolution and the Constituent Assembly
  5. 7.5 The Workers, the Red Guard, and the Power of the State
  6. 7.6 Town and Country
  1. Chapter 8 Conclusions

Postscript

  1. Postscript References

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