TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marot,John Eric
TI  - The October Revolution in prospect and retrospect: interventions in Russian and Soviet history 
T2  - Historical materialism book series
SN  - 9789004229877
AV  - DK265 .M3152 2012
U1  - 947.084/1 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Boston, Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Bogdanov, A.
KW  - Opposition (Political science)
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Right and left (Political science)
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1917-1921
KW  - Historiography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p, [263]-270) and index; Preliminary Material; John Eric Marot --; Introduction; John Eric Marot --; Chapter One The Peasant-Question and the Origins of Stalinism: Rethinking the Destruction of the October Revolution; John Eric Marot --; Chapter Two Trotsky, the Left Opposition and the Rise of Stalinism: Theory and Practice; John Eric Marot --; Chapter Three Class-Conflict, Political Competition and Social Transformation: Critical Perspectives on the Social History of the Russian Revolution; John Eric Marot --; Chapter Four Political Leadership and Working-Class Agency in the Russian Revolution: Reply to William G. Rosenberg and S.A. Smith; John Eric Marot --; Chapter Five A ‘Postmodern’ Approach to the Russian Revolution? Comment on Ronald Suny; John Eric Marot --; Chapter Six Alexander Bogdanov, Vpered, and the Role of the Intellectual in the Workers’ Movement; John Eric Marot --; Chapter Seven The Bogdanov Issue: Reply to Andrzej Walicki, Aileen Kelly and Zenovia Sochor; John Eric Marot --; Chapter Eight Marxism, Science, Materialism: Toward a Deeper Appreciation of the 1908–9 Philosophical Debate in Russian Social Democracy; John Eric Marot --; Chapter Nine Politics and Philosophy in Russian Social Democracy: Alexander Bogdanov and the Socio-Theoretical Foundations of Vpered; John Eric Marot --; References; John Eric Marot --; Index; John Eric Marot; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In a series of probing analytical essays, John Marot tracks the development of Bolshevism through the prism of pre-1917 intra-Russian Social Democratic controversies in politics and philosophy. For 1917, the author presents a critique of social historical interpretation of the Russian Revolution. Turning to NEP Russia, the author applies Robert Brenner's analysis of pre-capitalist modes of production and concludes that neither Bukharin nor Trotsky's NEP-premised programs of economic transformation and advance toward socialism were feasible. At the same time, he rejects the view that Stalinism was pre-destined to supplant NEP. Instead, he hypothesises that the superior alternative to Stalinism was NEP without collectivization and the Five-Year Plans — a outcome that would have been possible had Bukharin and Trotsky joined forces to stop Stalin
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004229877
ER  -