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Vadim Z. Rogovin. Bolsheviks against Stalinism (1928–1933). Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition.
Oak Park, Michigan: Mehring Books, 2019.
Traducción: Frederick S. Choate
Edición original rusa: Vlast’i oppozitsii, Moscú, 1993.
CONTENTS
Foreword
Notes from the Translator
Introduction
1 – The Economic Crisis of 1927
2 – The First Round of Emergency Measures
3 – The First Round of Reprisals against the Left Opposition
4 – The Left Opposition Evaluates the Emergency Measures
5 – Stalin Maneuvers
6 – Bukharin’s Negotiations with Kamenev
7 – Stalin’s Victory in the Comintern
8 – Stalin Discovers a “Right Deviation”
9 – Why there was no Bloc between “Rightists” and the Left Opposition
10 – Trotsky’s Deportation
11 – Stalin against the “Trotskyists.” The “Trotskyists” against Stalin
12 – Defeat of the “Rightists”
13 – The Alternative of the Left Opposition in 1929
14 – From Emergency Measures to Forced Collectivization
15 – The First Round of Collectivization
16 – The Left Opposition on Collectivization
17 – Stalin Retreats
18 – The Sixteenth Congress: “Finishing Off” the “Rightists”
19 – Stalin’s “Battle on Two Fronts”
20 – The “Right-Ultraleft Bloc”
21 – The Social and Class Meaning of the “Great Breakthrough”
22 – The Alternative of the Left Opposition in 1930
23 – Economics and Politics: The Party Regime
24 – The Methods of Stalinist Industrialization
25 – Reprisals against the Non-Party Intelligentsia
26 – The Alternative of the Left Opposition in 1931
27 – The Second Round of Collectivization and its Results
28 – Inequality, Poverty, Speculation
29 – Inequality, Privileges, and Luxury
30 – The Alternative of the Left Opposition in 1932
31 – Stalin, the Party, and the Opposition
32 – The Ideological Offensive of Stalinism
33 – Leaders of the Earlier Oppositions at the Beginning of the 1930s
34 – Along the Trail of a “Single Version”
35 – The Union of Marxist-Leninists
36 – “The Riutin Platform”
37 – Rout of “The Union of Marxist-Leninists”
38 – The Death of Nadezhda Alliluyeva
39 – “Why Can No One be Found Who Could Remove Stalin?”
40 – The Case of the “Bukharin School”
41 – The Case of the “Counter-Revolutionary Trotskyist Group”
42 – The Formation of an Anti-Stalin Bloc
43 – The Case of the “Illegal Trotskyist Center”
44 – The Politics of Carrot and Stick
45 – Purging the Party
46 – The Totalitarian Regime and Its “Theoretical” Basis
47 – Results of the First Five-Year Plan
48 – Famine
49 – The Theory of “Social-Fascism” and Hitler’s Coming to Power
50 – A Shift in Trotsky’s Strategy
Conclusion
Selected Biographical Notes