The Revolution Betrayed

By: Leon Trotsky

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One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayed explores the fate of the Russian Revolution after Lenin's death. Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and profound evaluation of Stalinism from the Marxist standpoint prophesied the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent related events.

The effects of the October Revolution led to the establishment of a nationalised planned economy, demonstrating the practicality of socialism for the first time. By the 1930s, however, the Soviet workers' democracy had crumbled into a state of bureaucratic decay that ultimately gave rise to an infamous totalitarian regime. Trotsky employs facts, figures, and statistics to show how Stalinist policies rejected the enormous productive potential of the nationalised planned economy in favour of a wasteful and corrupt bureaucratic system.

Six decades after the publication of this classic, the shattering of Stalinist regimes in Russia and Eastern Europe has confused and demoralised countless political activists. The Revolution Betrayed offers readers of every political persuasion an insider's view of what went wrong.

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Introduction: The Purpose of the Present Work	p. 1
Postscript	p. 3
What has Been Achieved
The Principal Indices of Industrial Growth	p. 5
Comparative Estimate of These Achievements	p. 8
Production Per Capita of the Population	p. 12
Economic Growth and the Zigzags of the Leadership
"Military Communism," "The New Economic Policy" (NEP) and the Course Toward the Kulak	p. 17
"A Sharp Turn: "The Five-Year Plan in Four Years" and "Complete Collectivization"	p. 25
Socialism and the State
The Transitional Regime	p. 35
Program and Reality	p. 38
The Dual Character of the Workers' State	p. 40
"Generalized Want" and the Gendarme	p. 43
The "Complete Triumph of Socialism" and the "Reinforcement of the Dictatorship"	p. 46
The Struggle for Productivity of Labor
Money and Plan	p. 50
"Socialist" Inflation	p. 53
The Rehabilitation of the Ruble	p. 57
The Stakhanov Movement	p. 60
The Soviet Thermidor
Why Stalin Triumphed	p. 66
The Degeneration of the Bolshevik Party	p. 72
The Social Roots of Thermidor	p. 80
The Growth of Inequality and Social Antagonisms
Want, Luxury and Speculation	p. 87
The Differentiation of the Proletariat	p. 93
Social Contradictions in the Collective Village	p. 97
The Social Physiognomy of the Ruling Stratum	p. 102
Family, Youth and Culture
Thermidor in the Family	p. 109
The Struggle Against the Youth	p. 120
Nationality and Culture	p. 128
Foreign Policy and the Army
From "World Revolution" to "Status Quo"	p. 141
The League of Nations and the Communist International	p. 146
The Red Army and Its Doctrines	p. 154
The Abolition of the Militia and the Restoration of Officers' Ranks	p. 163
The Soviet Union in a War	p. 170
Social Relations in the Soviet Union
State Capitalism?	p. 185
Is the Bureaucracy a Ruling Class?	p. 187
The Question of the Character of the Soviet Union Not Yet Decided by History	p. 190
The Soviet Union in the Mirror of the New Constitution
Work "According to Ability" and Personal Property	p. 194
The Soviets and Democracy	p. 197
Democracy and the Party	p. 200
Whither the Soviet Union?
Bonapartism as a Regime of Crisis	p. 206
The Struggle of the Bureaucracy with "the Class Enemy"	p. 210
The Inevitability of a New Revolution	p. 214
"Socialism in one Country"	p. 220
The "Friends" of the Soviet Union	p. 227
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