Author:
Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940.
Edition Statement:Collector's ed.
Imprint:Dubuque, IA : Synergy International of the Americas, 2009.
Descriptionv, 233 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1937.
Note:Translated by Max Eastman, although his name is not included in this reprint edition.
Note:INTRODUCTION--THE PURPOSE OF THE PRESENT WORK; CHAPTER I--WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED; 1. The Principal Indices of Industrial Growth; 2. Comparative Estimate of These Achievements; 3. Production Per Capita of the Population; CHAPTER II--ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE ZIGZAGS OF THE LEADERSHIP; 1. "Military Communism," the "New Economic Policy" (NEP) and the Course Toward the Kulak; 2. A Sharp Turn: "Five-Year Plan in Four Years" and "Complete Collectivization"; CHAPTER III--SOCIALISM AND THE STATE; 1. The Transitional Regime; 2. Program and Reality. 3. The Dual Character of the Workers' State 4. "Generalized Want" and the Gendarme; 5. The "Complete Triumph of Socialism" and the "Reinforcement of the Dictatorship"; CHAPTER IV--THE STRUGGLE FOR PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOR; 1. Money and Plan; 2. "Socialist" Inflation; 3. The Rehabilitation of the Ruble; 4. The Stakhanov Movement; CHAPTER V--THE SOVIET THERMIDOR; 1. Why Stalin Triumphed; 2. The Degeneration of the Bolshevik Party; 3. The Social Roots of Thermidor; CHAPTER VI--THE GROWTH OF INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL ANTAGONISMS; 1. Want, Luxury and Speculation. 2. The Differentiation of the Proletariat 3. Social Contradictions in the Collective Village; 4. The Social Physiognomy of the Ruling Stratum; CHAPTER VII--FAMILY, YOUTH AND CULTURE; 1. Thermidor in the Family; 2. The Struggle Against the Youth; 3. Nationality and Culture; CHAPTER VIII--FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ARMY; 1. From "World Revolution" to "Status Quo"; 2. The League of Nations and the Communist International; 3. The Red Army and Its Doctrines; 4. The Abolition of the Militia and the Restoration of Officers' Ranks; 5. The Soviet Union in a War. CHAPTER IX--SOCIAL RELATIONS IN THE SOVIET UNION; 1. State Capitalism?; 2. Is the Bureaucracy a Ruling Class?; 3. The Question of the Character of the Soviet Union Not Yet Decided by History; CHAPTER X--THE SOVIET UNION IN THE MIRROR OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION; 1. Work "According to Ability" and Personal Property; 2. The Soviets and Democracy; 3. Democracy and the Party; CHAPTER XI--WHITHER THE SOVIET UNION?; 1. Bonapartism as a Regime of Crisis; 2. The Struggle of the Bureaucracy with "the Class Enemy"; 3. The Inevitability of a New Revolution; APPENDIX --"SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY."; 1. The "Friends" of the Soviet Union.
