Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation

by Richard B. Day

Overview

A highly original and controversial examination of events in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1927 in which Professor Day challenges both the standard Trotskyite and Stalinist interpretations of the period. At the same time he rejects the traditional emphasis on Trotsky's concept of Permanent Revolution and argues that a Marxist theorist is essential. Professor Day concentrates upon the economic implications of revolutionary Russia's isolation from Europe. How to build socialism - in a backward, war-ravaged society, without aid from the West: this problem lay behind many of the most important political conflicts of Soviet Russia's formative years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521524360
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/08/2004
Series:	Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies , #13
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.54(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. The Dilemma of Economic Isolation: 1. The myth of Trotskyism; 2. Isolation and the mobilization of labour; 3. Integrationism and the New Economic Policy; Part II. The Politics of Economic Isolation: 4. The search for a new faith; 5. Socialism in One Country; 6. Trotsky's alternative; 7. Trotsky's attack on socialism in a 'separate'; 8. Integrationism in defeat and exile; Bibliography; Notes; Index.