The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect

Interventions in Russian and Soviet History

Bibliographic Data

ID23805327
AuthorsJohn Eric Marot (corresponding author), John Marot
Year2012
Publication date2012-06-08
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOctober Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004229877
OpenAlexW1607405219
ISBN9789004229877
LanguageEN
Citations received8

In a series of probing analytical essays, John Marot tracks the development of Bolshevism through the prism of pre-1917 intra-Russian Social Democratic controversies in politics and philosophy. For 1917, the author presents a critique of social historical interpretation of the Russian Revolution. Turning to NEP Russia, the author applies Robert Brenner's analysis of pre-capitalist modes of production and concludes that neither Bukharin nor Trotsky's NEP-premised programs of economic transformation and advance toward socialism were feasible. At the same time, he rejects the view that Stalinism was pre-destined to supplant NEP. Instead, he hypothesises that the superior alternative to Stalinism was NEP without collectivization and the Five-Year Plans — a outcome that would have been possible had Bukharin and Trotsky joined forces to stop Stalin.

Communism · Democracy · Economic history · Interpretation (philosophy) · Physics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prism · Russian revolution · Social democracy · Socialism · Sociology · History · Law · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History

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