Sobhanlal Datta Gupta (ed.), The Ryutin Platform.

Contents

Preface

Editor’s Introduction

The Ryutin Platform

Stalin and the Crisis of

Proletarian Dictatorship: Platform of the “Union of Marxists-Leninists.”

I – “Chance” and the Role of Personality in History

II – Stalin as an Unprincipled Intriguer

III – Stalin as a Man of Sophistry

IV – Stalin as a Leader and a Theoretician

V – Leninism and the Struggle against Opportunism
VI – Leninism and Socialist Society

VII – Classes and Sharpening of Class Struggle

VIII – Simple Reproduction and Marxism

IX – Appraisal of Inner Party Struggle in the Light of the Lessons of the Past Years

X – Evaluation of the Views of the Enemies of Proletarian Dictatorship

XI – The Crisis of Comintern

XII – The Crisis of Proletarian Dictatorship