Biblioteca / 1960-1969 1970-1979
Helmut Gruber, editor. International Communism in the Era of Lenin. A Documentary History.
Greenwich: Fawcett, 1967.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967.
Nueva York: Anchor Books, 1972.
xiv, 426 páginas.
CONTENTS
PREFACE [1966]
PREFACE TO THE ANCHOR EDITION [1971]
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
FORMATIVE YEARS: DEFINITION AND ORGANIZATION OF LEFT-WING SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
I – PARTY STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
1 – V. I. Lenin, What Is to Be Done?: Burning Questions of Our Movement
2 – Rosa Luxemburg, Leninism or Marxism?
II – ZIMMERWALD AND KIENTHAL CONFERENCES
1 – “The Tasks of Revolutionary Social Democracy in the European War”
2 – “Manifesto of the International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald”
3 – “Draft Manifesto Introduced by the Left-Wing Delegates at the International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald”
4 – “Theses Submitted to the International Socialist Committee by the German ‘Internationale’ Group”
5 – “To the Peoples Who Suffer Ruin and Death: Manifesto of the Kienthal Conference”
6 – “The Attitude of the Proletariat toward the Question of Peace: Resolution of the Kienthal Conference”
III – CREATION OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL
1 – “German Reservations about the Founding of the Comintern”
2 – “Manifesto of the Communist International to the Proletariat of the Entire World”
FURTHER READING
PART TWO
1919—WORLD REVOLUTION ON THE HORIZON: BERLIN, BUDAPEST, MUNICH, VIENNA
I – SPARTACUS IN BERLIN
1 – The German Spartacists: Their Aims and Objects
2 – “Joint Declaration by the Independent Socialist Party and the Communist Party”
3 – “Proclamation by the Revolutionary Committee Representing the Revolutionary Shop Stewards, the Central Committee of the Berlin USPD, and the Central Committee of the KPD”
II – BELA KUN’S 133 DAYS
1 – “The Constitution of the Hungarian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic”
2 – Béla Szátó, “The Real Reason for the Collapse of the Federal Hungarian Soviet Republic”
3 – Karl Radek, “The Lessons of the Hungarian Revolution”
4 – Paul Levi, “The Lessons of the Hungarian Revolution”
III – THE BAVARIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC
1 – The Revolutionary Central Council of Bavaria, “Proclamation of the Soviet Republic”
2 – “Declaration of the Communist Party Regarding the ‘Pseudo’-Soviet Republic”
3 – Paul Frölich, “The Munich Experience”
4 – Paul Levi, “The Munich Experience: An Opposing View”
IV – VIENNA: WINDOW TO THE WEST?
1 – “Declaration by the Executive Committee of Workers’ Councils to the Proletariat of Hungary”
2 – “Declaration of the Communist Workers’ Councilors”
3 – “Austrian Communist Broadside of June 14, 1919”
4 – “Directive of the Action Committee of Austrian Communists”
5 – “Declaration of the Viennese Workers’ Councilors”
6 – Karl Radek, “The Lessons of an Attempted Putsch: The Crisis in the German-Austrian Communist Party”
7 – Ernst Bettelheim, “The ‘Bettelheimerei’: A Contribution to the History of the Austrian CP and at the Same Time an Answer to Radek’s Criticism of the Events of June 15th”
V – VOICES OF ORTHODOXY—CRITICS AND JEREMIAHS
1 – V. I. Lenin, “‘Left-Wing’ Communism, an Infantile Disorder”
- Hermann Gorter, Open Letter to Comrade Lenin: An Answer to Lenin’s Pamphlet “‘Left-Wing’ Communism, an Infantile Disorder”
FURTHER READING
PART THREE
ORIGIN OF BOLSHEVIK HEGEMONY: ITALIAN SPLIT AND GERMAN OFFENSIVE
I – THE TWENTY-ONE CONDITIONS AND COMMUNIST DISCIPLINE: THE ITALIAN EXAMPLE
1 – Conditions of Admission into the Communist International
2 – G. M. Serrati, “The Second Congress of the Third International”
3 – “Declaration of the Representative of the Communist International”
4 – “Order of the Day of the Unitary Communists”
5 – “Order of the Day of the Concentration Faction”
6 – Paul Levi, The Beginning of the Crisis in the Communist Party and International
7 – Karl Radek, “The Italian Question”
II – THE GERMAN MARCH ACTION
1 – Paul Levi, Our Course against Putschism
2 – Karl Radek, “The Levi Case”
3 – Waldemar, “Behind the Scenes of the March Action”
4 – Clara Zetkin, Reminiscences of Lenin
5 – “Preparation for the Struggle” and “Lessons of the March Action”
III – VOICES OF ORTHODOXY—CRITICS AND JEREMIAHS
1 – “Directives on the United Front of the Workers and on the Attitudes to Workers Belonging to the Second, Two-and-a-Half, and Amsterdam Internationals, and to Those Who Support Anarcho-Syndicalist Organizations”
2 – Amadeo Bordiga, “Manifesto”
FURTHER READING
PART FOUR
1923—END OF WORLD REVOLUTION: BULGARIAN JUNE AND GERMAN OCTOBER
I – BULGARIANS SPURN THE UNITED FRONT
1 – “The Situation in Bulgaria and the Communist Party”
2 – “Manifesto of the Enlarged Executive of the Communist International on the Events in Bulgaria”
3 – “The Communist Party of Bulgaria and the Recent Coup D’Etat”
4 – Mátyás Rákosi, “The Latest Attitude of the CP of Bulgaria”
II – A SECOND RED OCTOBER?
1 – Ruth Fischer, “On the Situation in Germany and on the Tactics of the Party”
2 – A. Thalheimer and H. Brandler, “Theses on the October Defeat and on the Present Situation”
3 – “Speech of Comrade Zinoviev on the Situation in the KPD”
FURTHER READING
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