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Vadim Rogovin. Was There an Alternative? Trotskyism: A Look Through the Years, 1923-1927.
Oak Park: Mehring Books, 2021.
Edición original, Byla li al’ternativa?: “Trotskizm”: Vzglyad cherez gody, Moscú: TERRA, 1992.
Traducción: Frederick Choate.
600 páginas.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1 – Te Birth of the One-Party System
2 – The Fight Against Privileges
3 – Guaranteeing the Rights of a Dissenting Minority
4 – A “State of Siege” or Workers’ Democracy?
5 – The Old Guard of the Party: Danger of a Split
6 – The General Secretary: Organizer and Mentor of the Bureaucracy
7 – The “Testament”
8 – For Immediate Publication
9 – The “Georgian Incident” and the “Derzhimorda Regime”
10 – Fateful Days
11 – Trotsky’s Mistake
12 – Victory of the Triumvirate
13 – First Instances of Repression and the Monopoly on Power
14 – Trotsky Goes on the Offensive
15 – Counter-Attack
16 – The Struggle Continues
17 – Two Discussions
18 – “The New Course”
19 – “My Illness Couldn’t Have Come at a Worse Time”
20 – What Should the Party Regime Be Like?
21 – How Did the “Majority” Respond to the Opposition?
22 – A Stalinist Forgery
23 – The Mechanics of the Apparatus
24 – “The Liquidation of Any Discussion and Democracy”
25 – “Psychological Murder”
26 – “Super-Borgia in the Kremlin”
27 – “The Seven”
28 – When Stalin’s Fate Was Being Decided
29 – The Tactic of a United Front
30 – “The Lessons of October”
31 – The Birth of the Myth of “Trotskyism”
32 – The Struggle within the “Seven”
33 – The Duumvirate
34 – A Shift in Policy
35 – A New Split
36 – The “New Opposition”
37 – “That’s Where the Party Is United”
38 – The “United Opposition”
39 – Is the Victory of Socialism Possible in a Single Country?
40 – Trotsky’s Multifaceted Prognosis
41 – Counting on World Revolution
42 – The “Idyll” of the NEP
43 – “Super-Industrialization,” “Robbing the Peasantry,” and Popular Measures
44 – The Proletariat “Is Being Squeezed”
45 – Methods of Struggle against the Opposition
46 – The Final Stage of the Legal Struggle
47 – The Crisis Erupts
48 – Theory and Practice of the Thermidorian Amalgam
49 – The “Collectivization Congress” – “Finishes Off” the Opposition
Conclusion
Dates of Party Congresses, Conferences, and Comintern Congresses
Selected Biographical Note