Contents ← All Russia: From Revolution To Counter-RevolutionHome / Marxist Corpus / Wellred Catalogue / Russia: From Revolution To Counter-Revolution List of Illustrations Preface to the 2017 edition About the present work The question of the class nature of Russia What the book contains Introduction Fear of revolution What the Revolution achieved Unprecedented advance Women and the October Revolution Why the Soviet Union collapsed Trotsky’s analysis Caricature of socialism 1. The Balance Sheet of October The advances of the planned economy Was the October Revolution a coup? Permanent mobilisation Party and class All power to the soviets! The myth of the Constituent Assembly The peasantry and the soviets Naked reaction Lenin’s internationalism The price of isolation Unprecedented collapse The New Economic Policy 2. The Rise of Stalinism The Marxist theory of the state The semi-state The old state machine Roots of bureaucracy Lenin’s struggle against Stalin The bureaucratic reaction The United Opposition Why didn’t Trotsky take power? The role of the individual 3. From Five-Year Plan to the Purges Forced collectivisation Economic zig-zags Increased social divisions Soviet foreign policy German Revolution 1923 Socialism in one country The Third Period The victory of Hitler Popular Frontism The Spanish Revolution The Purge trials Old Bolsheviks exterminated Families wiped out The slaughter of the general staff The mark of Cain The end of the Comintern 4. The Nature of Stalinism The controversy over the class character of the USSR The transitional state after October Thermidor and Bonapartism What is Bonapartism? Stalinism: a form of Bonapartism ‘Bureaucratic collectivism’? Trotsky on ‘state capitalism’ ‘A trade union in power’ The theory of ‘state capitalism’ today 5. From War to ‘De-Stalinisation’ Once again: The advantages of the planned economy Consequences of the Purges ‘For the archives’ The tide turns Stalin’s manoeuvres Eastern Europe after the war Victory in China From Stalin to Khrushchev Stalin’s last purge Soviet imperialism? The Hungarian Revolution The Novocherkassk uprising 6. The Period of Stagnation The fall of Khrushchev The Soviet Union lags behind Technological advance Agriculture – the Achilles’ heel Living standards in the 1970s The problem of quality The state under Brezhnev Art and science Trials of writers 7. The Meaning of Perestroika An absolute fetter Gorbachev and Stalin Bureaucratic mismanagement A parasitic caste Ferment of discontent A gigantic zero Yeltsin’s demagogy Illusions in Gorbachev 8. From Foreign Policy to the National Question Arms expenditure ‘Peaceful coexistence’ Crisis in Eastern Europe East Germany in ferment Czechoslovakia, Romania and Hungary The national question and October The national question and Stalinism The scourge of anti-Semitism ‘Independence’ no way out Afterword: The Collapse of Stalinism The rise of Yeltsin The New Union Treaty The 1991 attempted coup Why the coup failed The fall of Gorbachev The drive towards privatisation Yeltsin’s manoeuvres The storming of the White House Western illusions A regime of decline Capitalist counter-revolution and women Capitalism can seriously damage your health The workers react Embryonic soviets The collapse The subjective factor The role of the ‘Communist Party’ How the CP leaders around the world ‘explained’ the collapse of the USSR Simply a ‘misunderstanding’? Russia’s humiliation Putin’s rise to power Chechnya Georgia and Ukraine The nature of Putin’s regime Contradictions of oligarchic rule Towards a new October! Bibliography List of Titles by Wellred Books Back toRussia: From Revolution To Counter-RevolutionNext chapterList of Illustrations