Revolutionary History Volume 05


RH0502 : Germany 1918-23 PDF Print E-mail
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  • Editorial

  • Jakob Reich : The First Years of the Communist International

  • Arthur Rosenberg : The Kapp Putsch and the Working Class

  • Udo Winkel : Paul Levi and his significance for the communist movement in Germany

  • Paul Levi : Introduction to Trotsky's "The Lessons of October"

  • Ernest Rogers : A comment on Paul Levi's article

  • August Thalheimer : The struggle for the United Front in Germany

  • Jacob Walcher : Notes on the conversations between Trotsky and Walcher 17 - 20 August 1933

  • Mike Jones : Germany 1923

  • Victor Serge : Observations in Germany 1923

  • Bernard Reichenbach : The KAPD in retrospect

Work in Progress

  • Note from Conquest on information in Volkogonov on the assassination of Trotsky

  • Note on a video on the murder of Nin

  • Brief notes on recent German publications from Decaton Verlag

  • Announcement of a new historical review from the Socialist Labor Party

  • Announcement of the London Socialist Historians Group

  • Note on recent Hungarian publications from the Soviet archives

  • Announcement of "Socialist History"

Reviews

  • Willie Thompson : The Good Old Cause ; British Communism 1920 - 1991

  • Alan McKinlay & RJ Morris (eds) : The ILP on Clydeside 1893 - 1932

  • Tom Buchanan : The Spanish Civil War and the British Labour Movement

  • John Graham (ed) Yours for the Revolution ; "The Appeal to Reason" 1895 - 1922

  • Tom Winnifrith (ed) : Perspectives on Albania

  • Jose Iriarte "Bikilia" : Do the workers have a country ?

  • Frank Girard & Ben Perry : The Socialist Labour Party 1876 - 1991

  • Michael Lowy : On changing the world

  • Wolfgang and Petra Lubitz (eds) Trotskyist Serials Bibliography

  • Robert J Alexander : International Trotskyism 1929 - 1985 (Casciola's comments on Romania)

  • Alan Wald : The Responsibility of Intellectuals

  • Eugene Strouhal : Life in Ancient Egypt

Letters

  • Hillel Ticktin on South Africa

  • Casciola on the Wuppertal symposium (See Vol 4 No 4 Work in Progress)

  • Paul Buhle, with reply from Al Richardson on CLR James

  • Bob Archer on Sam Gordon and Brandler

  • Peter & Cyril on Prins Rajasooriya

  • Albert Glotzer on Sam Gordon

  • Tim Wohlforth on Bolivia

 

  • Announcement of availability of supplementary documents

 
RH0501 : Eye Witness to Disaster PDF Print E-mail
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  • Editorial

  • Mildred Gordon : Sam Gordon (1910-1982) - Scientific Socialist

  • Sam Gordon : Reports from Germany, 1929 - 1930

  • Mike Jones : A Comment on Sam Gordon's Reports

  • Mika Etchebehere : Hyppolite Etchebehere, called Juan Rustico

  • Hyppolite Etchebehere : The Tragedy of the German Proletariat

  • Hyppolite Etchebehere : Letters to an Argentine Comrade

  • Ernest Rogers : Etchebehere's Assessment Confirmed

  • Mike Jones : Jan Valtin - A False Witness

Work in Progress

  • Note by Andy Durgan on a conference about Andreu Nin

  • Note by Crawford & Richardson on current research and studies

  • Announcement of the first issue of "Journal of Trotsky Studies"

Obituaries

  • Prins Rajasooriya

  • Louis Bondy

Reviews

  • James P. Cannon and the Early Years of American Communism : Selected Writings and Speeches, 1920 - 1928

  • Robert Service (ed), Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution

  • CN Reeves (ed) After Tut'ankhamun : Research and Excavation in the Royal Necropolis at Thebes

  • Victor Serge : Year One of the Russian Revolution

  • Arthur Ransome : Six Weeks in Russia 1919, and The Crisis in Russia 1920

  • Jeff Fellow : Revolting Scotland

  • Raymond Challinor : A Radical Lawyer in Victorian England. WP Roberts and the Struggle for Workers Rights

  • Fritz Keller : In den Gulag von Ost und West

  • Terry Brotherstone and Paul Dukes (eds) The Trotsky Reappraisal

  • Joe Jacobs : Out of the Ghetto

  • Frank Furedi : Mythical Past, Elusive Future; History and Society in an Anxious Age

  • Raya Dunayevskaya : The Marxist Humanist Theory of State Capitalism

Letters

  • Hillel Ticktin

  • Baruch Hirson replies to Ticktin

  • Jose Villa on Nationalism in Bolivia

  • Anibal Robles on Sendero Luminosa terrorism against trotskyist workers leaders in Peru

 

  • Readers' Notes


 
RH0503 : Victor Serge PDF Print E-mail
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  • Editorial

  • Dissenting statement by international Spartacist tendency on the 3rd International

  • Jean-Paul Joubert : Revolutionary Defeatism

  • Sam Levy : The Proletarian Military Policy Revisited

  • Rodolphe Prager : The Fourth International During the Second World War

  • Voix Ouvriere : A Constant Opportunism

  • Lutte Ouvriere / Daniel Guerin : Trotsky and the Second World War

  • Errata for Vol 1 No 2

  • Martin Upham : The Aylesbury By-election of 1938

Reviews
  • John Sullivan : ETA and Basque Nationalism

  • FA Ridley : Fascism down the ages

  • Wolfgang Lubitz : Trotsky Bibliography

  • A Butenko, G Popov, D Volkogonov : The Stalin Phenomenon

  • Bruno Rizzi : The Bureaucratisation of the World

Letters
  • Raymond Challinor on Harry McShane

  • Sam Bornstein on ILP censoring McGovern on the Spanish War

  • Ernest Rogers on Oehler's book on Barcelona

  • Paul Flewers on Spartacists and POUM

Reader Notes

  • Readers Notes

 

 
RH0504 : The Italian Left Through Fascism, War and Revolution: Trotskyism and Left Communism in Italy PDF Print E-mail
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  • Editorial

  • Paulo Casciola : Alfonso Leonetti: a Turncoat Trotskyist

  • Alfonso Leonetti : Why I Am Rejoining the Italian Communist Party

  • Paulo Casciola : Nicolo do Bartolomeo (1901-1946)

  • Paulo Casciola : Pietro Tresso and the early years of Italian Trotskyism.

  • Paulo Casciola : Blasco's people.

  • Paulo Casciola : Some Historical Vignettes.

  • Pierre Broue : The Italian Communist Party, the War and the Revolution.

  • Arturo Peregalli : The Left Wing Opposition in Italy during the Period of Resistance.

  • Paulo Casciola : Trotskyism and the Revolution in Italy (1943-44)

  • Provisional European Secretariat of the Fourth International : Manifesto to the Italian Workers, Peasants and Soldiers.

  • Paulo Casciola : The Troubled Relations Between the Communist Workers Party and the Fourth International.

Obituaries

  • Margaret Dewar (Logie Barrow)

  • William Campbell Tait (Mark Shipway)

  • Adam Westoby (Karen Blick)

Reviews

  • The ICC's The Italian Communist Current, (Al Richardson);

  • Robin Blick's The Seeds of Evil: Lenin and the Origins of Bolshevik Elitism, (Dave Bruce);

  • Drucker's Max Shachtman and His Left, (Jim Higgins);

  • Pipes' Russia under the Bolshevik Regime, (Simon Pirani);

  • Bradley's Slavery and Society at Rome, (Al Richardson);

  • Frederick Engels, International Socialism Special Issue, (Al Richardson);

  • Silber's Socialism: What went Wrong (Walter Kendall);

  • Ngo Van's Revolutionaries They Could Not Break (Al Richardson).

Letters

  • Baruch Hirson on Victor Serge and China,

  • Curtis Price on Left Communism in France

  • Mike Jones on Jan Valtin

  • Ian Birchall on Al Richardson's review of Cliff's book on Trotsky

  • an Exchange on Bolivia between Masas, no.1345, the paper of the Bolivian POR and Jose Villa on the Bolivian issue of Revolutionary History, Vol.4, No.3,