Witnesses to permanent revolution : : the documentary record / / edited and translated by Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido.

• TeilnehmendeR: Day, Richard B., 1942-; Gaido, Daniel.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (696 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The theory of Permanent Revolution has been associated with Leon Trotsky for more than a century since the first Russian Revolution in 1905. Trotsky was the most brilliant proponent of Permanent Revolution but by no means its sole author. The documents in this volume, most of them translated into English for the first time, demonstrate that Trotsky was one of several participants in a debate from 1903-7 that involved numerous leading figures of Russian and European Marxism, including Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring, Parvus and David Ryazanov. This volume reassembles that debate, assesses it with reference to Marx and Engels, and provides new evidence for interpreting the formative years of Russian revolutionary Marxism.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / R.B. Day -- Introduction - The historical origin of the expression ‘permanent revolution’ / R.B. Day -- Chapter One. ‘The slavs and revolution’ (1902) / Karl Kautsky -- ‘The slavs and revolution’ / R.B. Day -- Chapter Two. The draft programme of ‘Iskra’ and the tasks of russian social democrats (1903) / N. Ryazanov -- Chapter Three. ‘Orthodox’ pedantry (1903) / G.V. Plekhanov -- Chapter Four. ‘To What Extent Is The Communist Manifesto obsolete?’ (First edition: 1903 – Revised edition: June 1906) / Karl Kautsky -- Chapter Five. ‘Revolutionary questions’ (February 1904) / Karl Kautsky -- Chapter Six. ‘What was accomplished on the ninth of january’ (January 1905) / Parvus -- Chapter Seven. Up to the ninth of january (1905) / Leon Trotsky -- Chapter Eight. ‘After the Petersburg uprising: What next?’ (Munich, 20 January [2 February] 1905) / Leon Trotsky -- Chapter Nine. ‘The revolution in Russia’1 (28 January, 1905) / Rosa Luxemburg -- Chapter Ten. ‘After the first act’ (4 February, 1905) / Rosa Luxemburg -- Chapter Eleven. ‘The consequences of the japanese victory and social democracy’ (July 1905) / Karl Kautsky -- Chapter Twelve. Introduction to Ferdinand Lassalle’s speech to the jury (July 1905) / Leon Trotsky -- Chapter Thirteen. ‘Social democracy and revolution’ (25 November [12 November], 1905) / Leon Trotsky -- Chapter Fourteen. ‘The revolution in permanence’ (1 November 1905) / Franz Mehring -- Chapter Fifteen. The Next questions of our movement (September 1905) / N. Ryazanov -- Chapter Sixteen. ‘Our tasks’ (13 November 1905) / Parvus -- Chapter Seventeen. Foreword to Karl Marx, Parizhskaya Kommuna (December 1905) / Leon Trotsky -- Chapter Eighteen. ‘The russian revolution’ (20 December 1905) / Rosa Luxemburg -- Chapter Nineteen. ‘Old and new revolution’ (December 1905) / Karl Kautsky -- Chapter Twenty. ‘The sans-culottes of the french revolution’ (1889, Reprinted december 1905) / Karl Kautsky -- Chapter Twenty-One. ‘The role of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in the russian revolution’, Speech to the fifth (London) Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (25 May 1907) / Rosa Luxemburg -- Chapter Twenty-Two. ‘The driving forces of the russian revolution and its prospects’ (November 1906) / Karl Kautsky -- Chapter Twenty-Three. ‘The american worker’ (February 1906) / Karl Kautsky -- References / R.B. Day -- Index / R.B. Day.