Biblioteca / 1930-1939 2010-2019
C.L.R. James. World Revolution, 1917–1936. The Rise and Fall of the Communist International.
Londres: Secker & Warburg, 1937. 430 páginas.
Nueva York: Pioneer Publications, 1937.
Westport: Hyperion Press, 1973.
Nueva Jersey: Humanities Press, 1993. Con introducción de Al Richardson.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Editado por Christian Høgsbjerg. 540 páginas.
Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989)
CONTENTS
[Edición de 2017]
EDITOR’S NOTE
INTRODUCTION / Christian Høgsbjerg
World Revolution, 1917–1936
Preface
Introductory
1 – Marxism
2 – The Forerunners of the Third International
3 – The War and the Russian Revolution
4 – The Failure of the World Revolution and the Foundation of the International
5 – Lenin and Socialism
6 – Stalin and Socialism
7 – Stalin Kills the 1923 Revolution
8 – The Kulak and the British General Council
9 – Stalin Ruins the Chinese Revolution
10 – The Platform and the Five-Year Plan
11 – Industry and the Plan
12 – “After Hitler, Our Turn”
13 – The Great Retreat
14 – The Revolution Abandoned
15 – A Fourth International the Only Hope
Appendix on Sidney and Beatrice Webb’s Soviet Communism
Reviews of World Revolution
SELECTED REVIEWS OF THE ORIGINAL BRITISH EDITION
“The Rise and Fall of the Communist International: James’s Book Reviewed by Fenner Brockway,” in New Leader
Reply from C. L. R. James
“Du Côté de Chez Trotsky,” in New Statesman, by Raymond Postgate
“Lunacy or Logic? Two Views of One Book,” in Controversy
“Communist” by J. R. Campbell
“Trotskyist” by Harry Wicks
“World Revolution,” in Fight, by H[arry] W[icks]
“World Revolution 1917–36,” in Youth Militant, by H[ans] V[adja]
“Is There Real Democracy in Russia? Stalin and His Critics,” in Forward, by E[mrys] H[ughes]
“Communist Internationals: An Indictment of Stalin,” in the Times Literary Supplement
“Betrayed Revolutions,” in Information Bulletin of the British Committee for the Defence of Leon Trotsky, by Charles Sumner [Hilary Sumner-Boyd]
“Leninism Trotskified,” in Left Review, by R. F. Andrews [Andrew Rothstein]
“The Retreat of Moscow,” in The Plebs, by Rowland Hill
“World Revolution,” in International Affairs, by E. H. Carr
“Communism in Theory and Practice,” in The Advertiser (Adelaide)
“The Third International,” in Sydney Morning Herald
SELECTED REVIEWS OF THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN EDITION
“No Place for Communists,” in the Saturday Review, by Eugene Lyons
“History of the CI,” in New International, by Joseph Carter [Joseph Friedman]
“World Revolution,” in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, by Harry N. Howard
Appendixes
APPENDIX A – C. L. R. James, Introduction to Red Spanish Notebook: The First Six Months of the Revolution and the Civil War by Mary Low and Juan Breá [1937]
APPENDIX B – C. L. R. James, “Report on Activities in the Provinces” [1938]
APPENDIX C – Extracts from the Discussions between C. L. R. James and Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico, April 1939