INDEX
Publisher’s Introduction Author’s Foreword INTRODUCTION I. THE HISTORICAL MISSION OF THE PROLETARIAT II. THE QUESTION OF STATE IN MARXISM The Historical Course of State Workers’ State: A State Withering Away From the Very Beginning The Experience of Paris Commune The Worker’s State Defined by Marxism is a State Without Bureaucracy On the Concept of "Proletarian Dictatorship" III. THE TRANSITION PERIOD: A PERIOD OF REVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORMATIONS The Theoretical Conception of Transition Period as Defined by Marx Transition Period is not a Stagnant Period Transition Period is Linked With World Revolution IV. THE FATE OF THE ISOLATED REVOLUTION The Birth of Worker’s Soviets’ State with the October Revolution of 1917 1918-1921: The Life and Death Struggle of the Soviet Worker’s Power 1921-1924: The Bureaucratic Degeneration of the State and the Party 1924-1928: The Process of Bureaucratic Counter-Revolution 1928-1936: Reinforcement of the Bureaucratic Dictatorship Other Bureaucratic Regimes V. THE TRANSITION PERIOD CEASES TO EXIT UNDER BUREAUCRATIC DICTATORSHIP The Ideology of the Bureaucratic State The Characteristics of the Bureaucratic Regime Historical Gain? Bureaucracy is a State-Based Class Bureaucratic Regime has No Future VI. TROTSKY'S VIEWS ON THE USSR From 1929 to 1936 1936, “
The Revolution Betrayed” and After VII. FREEZING TROTSKY'S ANALYSES Mandel’s Concept of “Transition Society” VIII. CRITIQUE OF THE THEORY OF THE "STATE CAPITALISM" What is, and is not, State Capitalism? On the Theory of State Capitalism in General The Question of Accumulation The Question of Military Competition The Question of the Law of Value Is Labour Power a Commodity in the USSR? Has the Workings of the Law of Value Altered? IX. DIFFERENT VIEWS ON THE USSR On Rakovsky’s Assessments On Max Shachtman’s Assessments Those Who Consider “Bureaucratic Collectivism” as a World-wide Tendency X. WHAT EVENTS SAY XI. THE CONCLUSIONS DRAWN FROM THE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE