The Revolution Besieged

by Cliff, Tony

• ISBN13: 9781608460878
• ISBN10: 1608460878
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-07
• Publisher: Haymarket Books

Summary

When Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik party led the first successful workers revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work was finished with the overthrow of capitalism in Russia. As the fledgling workers' state was gripped by a civil war, the revolution's leaders remained steadfast in their commitment to spreading their successes across all of Europe. Tony Cliff(1917-2000) spent his life developing revolutionary Marxism against Stalinism. From his early days as a revolutionary in British-occupied Palestine to the high points of struggle in post-war Britain, Cliff worked to restore lost ideas and traditions and fan the flames of resistance.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Congresses of the Party, Soviets, Trade Unions and the Communist International	p. xv
The Bolshevik Government's First Steps	p. 1
The Consolidation of Power	p. 22
Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly	p. 29
The Peace of Brest-Litovsk	p. 38
Transition from Capitalism to Socialism	p. 55
'We Need State Capitalism'	p. 66
War Communism (1918-1921)	p. 81
The Heroic and the Tragic Intertwine	p. 99
The Proletariat Under War Communism	p. 112
War Communism and the Peasantry	p. 129
The Withering Away of the State?	p. 144
The Establishment of the Bolsheviks' Political Monopoly	p. 161
Transformation of the Party	p. 179
Lenin and the Military Front	p. 194
The Rise of the Communist International	p. 207
The Proletarian Assault Rebuffed - the Need for a New Policy	p. 218
The Comintern - a School for Tactics	p. 229
Lenin, Bolshevism and the Comintern	p. 251
The Grafting of Bolshevism Fails	p. 271
Britain and Bulgaria - Two Antipodes	p. 284
The Great Cover-up	p. 316
The Bolshevik Regime in Crisis	p. 327
The New Economic Policy	p. 344
The Defeat of the German Revolution	p. 367
Lenin Fights for his Life-Work	p. 394
Fighting to the Last Breath …	p. 412
The Final Defeat	p. 423
Notes	p. 443
Chronology	p. 465
Index	p. 473
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