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Helmut Gruber, ed. International Communism in the Era of Lenin.

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”

  1. 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

SELECTED GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY