
Contents
PART ONE: THE RUSSIAN WORKING CLASS TAKES POWER
Chapter 1 – The October Revolution
Chapter 2 – The Counter-Revolution
Chapter 3 – How the Bolsheviks Defeated the Counter-Revolution
PART TWO: ISOLATION AND DEGENERATION OF THE WORKERS STATE
Chapter 4 – Setbacks in the International Struggle
Chapter 5 – The Exhaustion of Soviet Democracy
Chapter 6 – Bureaucracy and the Workers’ State
Chapter 8 – The Struggle for Power in the Communist Party
Chapter 10 – The Defeat of the German Revolution
PART THREE: “SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY”
Chapter 11 – The Invention of “Trotskyism”
Chapter 12 – “Socialism in One Country”
Chapter 13 – Why Marxism Stands for Internationalism
Chapter 14 – What “Socialism in One Country” Really Meant
PART FOUR: THE BUREAUCRATIC COUNTER-REVOLUTION
Chapter 16 – The Defeat of the Joint Left Opposition
Chapter 17 – Proletarian Bonapartism
Chapter 18 – From the “Third Period”…