Stalin - A Critical Survey Of Bolshevism - Paperback

STALIN A Critical Survey of Bolshevism By Boris Souvarine Alliance Book Corporation LONGMANS, GREEN CO. New York CONTENTS FOREWORD ix Chapter I Sosso i Birth of Stalin His family, his native country Childhood and youth The Caucasus and Georgia The social environment Bandits and gentry Economic and social conditions The Tiflis Seminary The Tran. it a ucasian railway The first Social Democrats of Georgia Stalin joins the Socialist Movement. Chapter II THE YKARS OF APPRENTICESHIP 18 Socialism in Russia Wot kns and peasant Industry under Tsar ism Backward capitalism and an iinjxurtu lx uigeoisic The IutrlIigent. sia. The Pioneers of the revolution Theoreticians and policies I lerzen, Bakunin. Nethayev, Tkachev Populism and terrorism Enter the proletariat Marxism Plek ha nov Workers and Socialist circles-First Congress of the Social Democratic PartyStalin at Tiflis Autobiography in perspective Lenin Iskra Origins of Bolshevism The professional revolutionaries Stalin as militant Arrest, first exile Trotsky The fundamental ideas of Ixrnin. Chapter III PROLOGUE TO REVOLUTION 50 Stalin and Lenin Second Congress of Social - Democracy The hards and the softs Bolshevik and Meiuthcviks The split l enin the Jacobin - Stalin the BoUhevik Internal struggle in the Party I rnins isolation Discussions and polemic Ri sa Luxemburg Plekhanovs prophecy The first Leninists The Russo-Japanese War The Social Revolutionary Party Strikes and the working class movement Blood v Sunday at St. Petersburg The Revolution of 1905 The Third Social - Democratic Congress held by the Bolsheviks The Soviet of Workers Deputies Disagreements Ixrtween Socialists Lenin as seen by Stalin. Chapter IV A PROFESSIONAL REVOLUTIONARY 83After the first revolution Soci L Democratic unity The Stockholm Congress New dissensions between Bolsheviks and Memhevik The Duma Lenin and the boycott of the elections The Boyeviki Expropriations and banditry Guerilla warfare The Bolshevik Centre Knmin The Tiflis affair Kamo Stalin and Bolshevik terrorism Tsintsadie Pilsudski The London Congress Stalin at Baku Stalin in prison Stalin at St. Petersburg Definitive split in VI CONTENTS the Social-Democracy Bolshevism and Menshevism Dislike of the revolution Tendencies, fractions and groups The question of money Bogdanov The Bolshevik Party Stalin member of the Central CommitteeLenin and Trotsky The national question Stalin in Austria Malinovsky Stalin deported to Siberia Police and provocateurs. Chapter V THE REVOLUTION 1 39 The war of 1914 Defencism and defeatism Lenin against all The February Revolution Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet Stalin at liberty-Bolshevik confusion The return of Ix nin The April Theses All power to the Soviets Trotsky with l nin Hopes of the world revolution The July days The question of the So vim The Rornilov episode The Sixth Paiiy CongressStalins role The great Bolshevik wave Trotsky president of the Petrogtiitl Soviet Lenin advocate of complete democracy State and revolution Divergence of view on the date of the insurrection Lenin demands the coup detat Trotsky directs the military operationsThe October Revolution Achievements and pros ccts. Chapter VI THK CIVIL WAR 188 The nionow of victory Disruptions t et veeii the Bolsheviks I enin at work The liberty of the press Gorky against Lenin 1 he Council of Peoples Com missars . Stalin...