Storia del bolscevismo, vol 2. Sconfitta, reazione e ripresa 1906-1914

Storia del bolscevismo #2

by Alan Woods

Alla rivoluzione del 1905 seguono “anni di reazione, scoraggiamento, demoralizzazione, scissioni, sfacelo, tradimento, pornografia invece di politica” (Lenin).

E’ in questi anni difficili che matura la definitiva costituzione del bolscevismo in partito indipendente (1912), proprio alla vigilia della nuova ripresa del movimento rivoluzionario. E mentre la classe operaia ritorna in campo, lo scontro fra le potenze imperialistiche si acuisce nelle guerre balcaniche fino a sfociare nello scoppio della Prima guerra mondiale.

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First published June 1, 1999

About the author

Alan Woods is a Trotskyist political theorist. He is one of the leading members of the British group Socialist Appeal as well as its parent group, the International Marxist Tendency (IMT). He is political editor of the IMT's In Defence of Marxism website.

Woods supported the Militant tendency within the UK Labour Party until the early 1990s, when he and Ted Grant were expelled from the tendency and founded the Committee for a Marxist International (soon renamed International Marxist Tendency) in 1992. They continued with the policy of entryism into the Labour Party.

Woods has been particularly vocal in his support for the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, and has repeatedly met with the socialist Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, leading to speculation he was a close political adviser.

Reviews

[Ted Sprague · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sebuah partai revolusioner hanya pantas menyandang predikat tersebut bila ia juga mampu mundur secara teratur selama masa reaksi gelap. Dalam buku ini, penulis, dengan menggunakan banyak sumber dan secara detil, mengungkapkan sejarah Partai Bolshevik (Partai Komunis Uni Soviet) selama periode reaksi 1906-1910, yakni setelah Tsar berhasil mematahkan Revolusi 1905.

[Joshua · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kualitas terjemahan yang sangat baik berhasil memberikan pembaca gambaran jelas menuju kenaikan Bolshevik pada masa reaksi di Rusia saat itu. Banyak pembelajaran organisasional yang terkandung dalam jilid kali ini yang menggambarkan cara Lenin memimpin periode kelam itu.