Witnesses to permanent revolution, the documentary record Edited and translated by Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido

Day, Richard B. and Daniel Gaido, ed

ISBN 10: 1608460894 / ISBN 13: 9781608460892

Published by Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2011

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xii, 682p., wraps, very good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Witnesses to permanent revolution, the documentary record Edited and translated by Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido
• Publisher: Haymarket Books, Chicago
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608460894
• ISBN 13: 9781608460892
• Binding: Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • 1920S
  • 1910S
  • Trotskyism

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Synopsis

The theory of permanent revolution has long been associated with Leon Trotsky. Though he was the most brilliant of its proponents, these newly translated documents, most of them translated into English for the first time, demonstrate that Trotsky was only one of several leading figures of international Marxism engaged in a debate, sparked by the first Russian Revolution in 1905, about the form workers’ struggle would take in less developed countries. Among the figures included in these discussions were Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring, Parvus, and David Ryazanov.

About the Author

Richard B. Day: Ph. D. (1970), University of London, is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published extensively on Soviet economic and political history, including Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation (Cambridge, 1973).

Daniel F. Gaido: Ph.D. (2000), University of Haifa (Israel), is a researcher at the National Research Council (Conicet), Argentina. He is the author of The Formative Period of American Capitalism (Routledge, 2006) and is currently working on the history of German Social Democracy.