Revolutionary History Volume 08


RH0803 : The Balkan Socialist Tradition- Balkan Socialism and the Balkan Federation, 1871-1915.
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Edltorial


Andreja ZivKovic, General Introduction
I: The origins of the Balkan Socialist Tradition: Between populism and Marxism

  • Dragan Plavsic, Introduction
  • Svetozar MarKovic, Serbia in the East
  • Svetozar MarKovic, Slav Austria and Serb unity
  • Hristo Botev, On Discord Among the BalKan peoples


II: Marxism and the Eastern Question: Challenging the orthodoxy 1896-97

  • Dragan Plavsic, Introduction
  • Rosa Luxemburg, Social Democracy and the National Struggles in TurKey
  • Wilhelm LiebKnecht, Statement
  • Karl Kautsky, The Eastern Question and Social Democracy
  • Wilhelm Liebknecht, crete and Social Democracy
  • Eduard Bernstein, crete and the Russian Danger
  • Christian Rakovsky, The Eastern Question and theInternational Socialist party

III: Bulgarian Socialism and the Macedonian National Liberation Movement, 1903-08

  • Andreja ZivKovic, Introduction
  • Dimo Hadzhi Dimov and DimitOr Mirazchiev, After Ilinden
  • Dimitor Blagoev, On the Macedonian Question
  • A Gorov, Once Again on the Macedonian Question

IV: The Revolution in Turkey and the Balkan Federation

  • Andreja Zivkovic, Introduction
  • Christian RaKovsKy, The TurKish Revolution
  • DimitOr Blagoev, The Revolution in TurKey and Social Democracy
  • Dimo Hadzhi Dimov, our political standpoint
  • The BalKan Federation and the Workers
  • The Nationalist struggles and socialism

V: The Annexation of Bosnia by Austria-Hungary in 1908

  • Dragan Plavsic, Introduction
  • otto Bauer, Austria's Foreign policy and Social Democracy
  • Dimitrije Tucovic, Austria-Hungary in the BalKans
  • Dimitrije Tucovic, German Socialism and the Russian Danger
  • Arbeiter-zeitung, War?
  • Dimitrije Tucovic, What We say
  • Dimitrije Tucovic and Karl Renner, Debate on Bosnia

VI: The Balkan Federation and Balkan Social Democracy

  • Andreja ZivKovic, Introduction
  • Karl KautsKy, The National TasKs of Socialists Among the BalKan Slavs
  • Resolution of the First Balkan Social Democratic Conference
  • Dimitrije Tucovic, The First BalKan Social Democratic Conference
  • Christian RaKovsky, Towards a BalKan Entente
  • Dimitar Blagoev, Political prospects
  • Christian RakovsKy, The Balkan Confederation and the Turkish-Bulgarian Defensive Alliance
  • DimitOr Blagoev, The'BalKan Conference and the BalKan Federation

VII: The Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and the Balkan Federation

  • Dragan Plavsic, Introduction
  • Christian RaKovsky, Manifesto of the Socialists of Turkey and the Balkans
  • Trisa Kaclerovic, Memoirs of the First Balkan War
  • Hristo KabaKchiev, From Victory to Defeat
  • Dimitrije Tucovic, Serbia and Albania

VIII: The First World War and the Balkan Federation

  • Dragan Plavsic, Introduction
  • Dragisa Lapcevic, Against War
  • Dusan popovic, Serbian Social Democracy in the war
  • The Second BalKan Social Democratic Conference - Manifesto
  • The Second BalKan Social Democratic Conference- Discussion


Glossary and Maps


Remembering Giulio Seniga


Obituaries
Work in Progress
Reviews

  • Martin Amis, Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (Dave Renton)
  • Tom Behan, The Resistible Rise of Benito Mussolini (William Gambetta)
  • Daniel BensaId, Les Trotskysmes (Chris Gray)
  • Marjorie Chibnall, The Debate on the Norman Conquest (Dave Renton)
  • Tony Cliff, In the Thick of Workers' struggles: Selected Writings, Volume Two (Harry Ratnerl
  • James Eaden and David Renton, The Communist Party of Great Britain Since 1920 (John Mcilroy)
  • Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che (Mike Macnairl
  • Israel Getzler, Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution (AI Richardson)
  • Ted Grant, History of British Trotskyism (John Mcilroy)
  • Michael Hopkinson, The Irish war of Independence (John Newsinger)
  • Joost Augusteijn, The Irish Revolution 1913-1923 (John Newsinger)
  • Bill Hunter, Forgotten Hero: The Life and Times Of Edward Rushton(Sheila Lahr)
  • Fritz Keller (ed), paul Lafargue. Essays zur Geschichte, Kultur and Politik (Mike Jones)
  • La Teor{a de la Revolucion permanente (John Sullivan)
  • John Mcilroy, Kevin Morgan and Alan Campbell (eds), party people, Communist Lives: Explorations in Biography (Stefan Cholewka)
  • Jean-Jacques Marie, Staline (Ian Birchall)
  • Wesley S Muthiah and Sydney Wanasinghe (eds), We Were Making History: Saga of the Hartal of August 1953 (Charles Wesley Ervin)
  • Christophe Nick, Les Trotskistes (AI Richardson)
  • Archie Potts, Zilliacus: A Life for Peace and Socialism (Paul Flewers)
  • William M Reddy, The Navigation of Feeling (Ian Birchall)
  • AI Richardson (ed), What Became of the Revolution: Selected writings of Boris Souvarine (Ian Donovan)
  • Alfred Rosmer, Boris Souvarine, Emile Fabrol, Antoine Clavez, Trotsky and the Origins of Trotskyism (Mike Jones)
  • Eli Sagan, Citizens and Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity and the Origins of Ideological Terror (Tobias Abse)
  • Louise Grace Shaw, The British political Elite and the Soviet Union (Paul Flewers)
  • States of Illusion: Soviet Graphics (Glyn Beagley)
 
RH0804 : August Thalheimer and German Communism

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Editorial

Contents

  • John McIlroy, Al Richardson (1941-2003): An Appreciation
  • Ottokar Luban, Rosa at a Loss: The KPD Leadership and the Berlin Uprising of January 1919: Legend and Reality
  • Karl Retzlaw, From the Kapp Putsch to the March Action
  • August Thalheimer, 1923: A Missed Opportunity?: The Legend of the German October and the Real History of 1923
  • August Thalheimer, The Fifth Congress of the Communist International and its Results
  • August Thalheimer, The Strategy and Tactics of the Communist International
  • Alexander Vatlin, The Programme Discussion in the Communist International
  • Paolo Sensini, Beyond Marxism, Anarchism and Liberalism: Bruno Rizzi's Scientific and Revolutionary Path

Reviews

  • James P Cannon, Max Shachtman, Leon Trotsky and Others, Dog Days: James P Cannon vs Max Shachtman in the Communist League of America, 1931-1933 (Al Richardson)
  • Jean-Pierre Hirou, Du trotskysme au communisme libertaire (Ian Birchall)
  • Martyn Housden, Hans Frank, Lebensraum and the Holocaust (Dave Renton)
  • Robert Morrell, The Gentle Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Frank Ridley: Socialist and Secularist
  • Michael Parenti, The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of
  • Ancient Rome (Chris Gray)
  • Sylvain Pattieu, Les camarades des frères: trotskistes et libertaires dans
  • la guerre d'Algérie (Ian Birchall)
  • Georg Scheuer, Seuls les fous n'ont pas peur (Esther Leslie)
  • Jean Marc Schiappa, Les babouvistes (Ian Birchall)
  • WG Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction (Sheila Lahr)
  • David Stack, The First Darwinian Left: Socialism and Darwinism 1859-1914
  • (Andrew West)
  • Anne Kerr and Tom Shakespeare, Genetic Politics: From Eugenics To Genome (Andrew West)
  • Ian D Thatcher, Trotsky (Al Richardson) (Sheila Lahr)
 
RH0801 : The Comintern and its Critics

 

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Editorial

1 Those Against

  • John McIlroy, New Light on Arthur Reade: Tracking Down Britain's First Trotskyist
  • Fritz Keller, Trotskyism in Austria
  • Charles Wesley Ervin, Philip Gunawardena: The Making of a Revolutionary
2 All Change
  • Walter Kendall, The Communist International and the Turn from 'Social-Fascism' to the Popular Front
  • Jean-Jacques Marie, The Journal of Georgi Dimitrov
3 Family Quarrels
  • Ante Ciliga, How Tito Took Over the Yugoslav Communist Party
  • John McIlroy, Rehabilitating Communist History: The Communist International, the Communist Party of Great Britain and Some Historians
4 Objections Overruled
  • Grandizo Munis and Jaime Fernández, Corrections to the Cahiers Léon Trotsky, no 227
  • Augustin Guillamón, The Investigation of the Spanish Bolshevik-Leninists (1938)

John MciLroy, John Archer (1909-2000)

Obituaries

Work in Progress

Reviews

  • Albert Archar (ed), The Legacy of Ernest Mandel (Brian Green)
  • Communist Workers Organisation, Trotsky, Trotskyism, Trotskyists (Al Richardson)
  • Georg Lukács, A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic (Cyril Smith)
  • Dave Renton, Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Britain in the 1940s (Sheila Lahr)
  • Janet Richards and Mary Van Buren, Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States (Al Richardson)
  • Victor Serge, Witness to the German Revolution (Mike Jones)
  • Wilebaldo Solano, El POUM en la historia: Andreu Nin y la revolución española (John Sullivan)
  • Ian D Thatcher, Leon Trotsky and World War One, August 1914-February 1917 (Al Richardson)
  • Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution (Paul Flewers)
  • Barry Lee Woolley, Adherents of Permanent Revolution: A History of the Fourth (Trotskyist) International (Al Richardson)
 
RH0802 : Mutiny Disaffection and Unrest in the Armed Forces
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Editorial

I: Mutiny and the Cohesion of the Armed Forces

  • Ted Crawford, Mutiny and the Cohesion of the Armed Forces
  • Julian Putkowski, Observations on Mutinies

II: Marxists and Military Thinking

  • Ian Birchall,The Enigma of Kersausie: Engels in June 1848
  • Karl Radek, Marxism and the Problems of War

III: Mutinies in Eastern Europe

  • Christian Rakovsky, The Origins of the Potemkin Mutiny (1905)
  • Rémi Adam, 1917: The Revolt of the Russian Soldiers in France
  • Rémi Adam, The Bolshevik Revolution As Seen Through the Eyes of the Soldiers of the Russian Expeditionary Corps in France
  • Tico Jossifort, The Revolt at Radomir
  • The Black Sea Revolt

IV:Disaffection and Dissent in the British Armed Forces

  • julian Putkowski, Mutiny in India in 1919
  • Report on Revolutiomnary Organisations : Red Officer Course

V: Comintern Work in Weatrern Armed Forces in the 1930s

  • Communist International, Work in the Army

VI: Disaffection in the Army in the Second World War

  • David Renton, Bread and Freedom
  • Julian Putkowski interviews Dave Wallis
  • Swimming Against the Tide: Duncan Hallas on his Experiences in Egypt


Work in Progress


Obituaries


Reviews

 

  • Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, John Mcilroy, British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics,
    • Volume I: The Postvvar Compromise 1945-64;
    • Volume 2: The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964-79 (Harry Ratner)
  • Tony Cliff, International Struggle and the Marxist Tradition: Selected Writings, Volume One (John Sullivan)
  • William Doyle, The Ancien Regime (Ian Birchall)
  • Moira Donald and Tim Rees (eds), Reinterpreting Revolution in
  • Twentieth-Century Europe (Ian Birchall)
  • Eros Francescangeli, Arditi del Popolo - Argo Secondari e la prima organizzazione antifascista (191 7-1 922) (Barbara Rossi)
  • Manuel Grossi, The Asturian Uprising: Fifteen Days of Socialist Revolution (Jim Higgins)
  • Zygmunt Zaremba, The Warsaw Commune: Betrayed by Stalin, Massacred by Hitler (Jim Higgins)
  • Bill Hunter, Lifelong Apprenticeship: Life and Times of a Revolutionary, Volume I: 1920-/959 (JJ Plant)
  • Ronald Radosh, Mary R Habeck and Grigory Sevostianov, Spain
  • Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War (John Sullivan)
  • Alexander Pantsov, The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution, 1919-/927 (AI Richardson)
  • Paul Le Blanc and Thomas Barrett, Revolutionary Labor Socialist: The Life, Ideas and Comrades of Frank Lovell (AI Richardson)
  • G Munis, Teorfa y practica de la lucha de c/ases, Volume 2 (John Sullivan)
  • Ngo Van, Au Pays de la Cloche F~/ee: tribulations d'un Cochinchinois a f'epoque colonia Ie (Hilary Horrocks)
  • Paul T Nicholson and Ian Shaw (eds), Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (AI Richardson)
  • Grant D Jones, The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom (AI Richardson)
  • Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth, On the Edge: POlitical Cults Right and Left (Geoff Barr)
  • SusanWeissman, Victor Serge: The Course is Set on Hope (Paul Flewers)
  • Andy Wood, Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England (DaVid Renton)
  • Alan Woods, Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution (Alejandra Rfos