Editorial

Contents

• Gary Tennant, An Introduction to the History of Trotskyism in Cuba
• Gary Tennant, The Background: Nationalism and Communism in Cuba
• Gary Tennant, Julio Antonio Mella and the Roots of Dissension in the Partido Comunista de Cuba
• Gary Tennant, The Birth of Dissident Cuban Communism and the Oposición Comunista de Cuba, 1930-33
• Gary Tennant, The Partido Bolchevique Leninista and the Revolution of the 1930s
• Gary Tennant, Trotskyism in Cuba Between the Revolutions
• Gary Tennant, The Reorganised Partido Obrero Revolucionario (Trotskista) and the 1959 Revolution
• To the Cuban Workers and Peasants Letter from the Workers Party of the United States to the Cuban Trotskyists
• Gary Tennant, Historical Vignettes An Interview with Roberto Acosta Hechavarría
• The International Secretariat and the Cuban Trotskyists
• Thirty Years Since the Death of Ernesto Guevara

Obituaries

Work in Progress

Reviews

• Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive, Part 1: The KGB in Europe and the West (JJ Plant)
• Paul Flewers, ‘I Know How, But I Don’t Know Why’: George Orwell’s Conception of Totalitarianism (John Newsinger)
• John Newsinger, Orwell’s Politics (Paul Flewers)
• Susan Weissman (ed), The Ideas of Victor Serge: A Life as a Work of Art (Bill Marshall)
• Leon Trotsky, The Transitional Programme (Al Richardson)
• Morgan Philips Price, Dispatches from the Weimar Republic (Al Richardson)
• John Reed, Shaking the World: John Reed’s Revolutionary Journalism (Al Richardson)
• John H Kautsky, The Politics of Aristocratic Empires (Al Richardson )
• Susan Pollock, Ancient Mesopotamia (Al Richardson)
• Dave Renton, Fascism: Theory and Practice (Tobias Abse)
• Donny Gluckstein, The Nazis, Capitalism and the Working Class (Tobias Abse)
• Enzo Traverso, Understanding the Nazi Genocide: Marxism After Auschwitz (Tobias Abse)
• Bill Hunter, Lifelong Apprenticeship: The Life and Times of a Revolutionary (Sheila Lahr)
• Leon Trotsky, Escritos Latinoamericanos (John Sullivan)
• Anton Dannat, Auf dem Floss der Medusa? (Ian Birchall)
• Philippe Gottraux, Socialisme ou Barbarie (Ian Birchall)
• Eric Cavaterra, La Banque de France et la Commune de Paris (Jean Marc Schiappa)
• Nicole Bossut, Chaumette, porte-parole des sans-culottes (Jean Marc Schiappa)
• Zheng Chaolin, An Oppositionist for Life (Simon Pirani)
• Gregor Benton, China’s Urban Revolutionaries: Explorations in the History of Chinese Trotskyism 1921-1952 (Simon Pirani)
• Robert Louzon, China: Three Thousand Years of History, Fifty Years of Revolution (Charlie Hore)

Editorial

Contents

• The Culture of the Old World
  

• Leon Trotsky, Ibsen
• Trotsky, Two Literary Souls at the Mercy of the Metaphysical Demon
• Leon Trotsky, Poetry, the Machine, and the Poetry of the Machine
• Leon Trotsky, On the Novel in General and on The Three of Them in Particular
• Leon Trotsky, Culture and the Little White Bull
• Paul Flewers, Vekhi and the Retreat from Reason

• Impressionism: Trotsky in Vienna
  • Fritz Keller, Trotsky in Vienna
  • Leon Trotsky, On Death and Eros
  • Leon Trotsky, A New Year's Conversation about Art
  • Leon Trotsky, The Vienna Secession of 1909
  • Leon Trotsky, Two Viennese Exhibitions
  • Leon Trotsky, On the Intelligentsia
  • Leon Trotsky, Vienna Secession 1913
• The Culture of the Transition Period
  • John Plant, Trotsky, Art and the Revolution
  • Antonio Gramsci, A Letter to Leon Trotsky on Futurism
  • Leon Trotsky, For Quality -- For Culture!
• Culture Under the Dictators
  • Pierre Naville, Trotsky on Art and Literature
  • Richard Greeman, Did Trotsky Read Serge?
  • Esther Leslie, Elective Affinities
  • James T Farrell, A Memoir of Leon Trotsky
  • Leon Trotsky, Marcel Martinet
  • Leon Trotsky, The Attitude of Men of Letters
  • An Interview with Jean Malaquais
  • Fritz Keller, Stalinism versus Hedonism
• The International Federation of Independent Revolutionary Artists
  
  • Maurice Nadeau, Trotsky and Breton
  • Leon Trotsky, You Must Not Whisper
  • Leon Trotsky, Difficulties With Diego