The Dictatorship of the Proletariat


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Offers an analysis of Marx's controversial theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, arguing that it can no longer be displaced or ignored as the viable democratic centre of Marxist political thought. The book traces the development of the theory from the early work of Marx and Engels to 1924.




Dictatorship of Proletariat


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The Dictatorship of the Proletariat


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Kautsky's assault on the dictatorship of the proletariat as practiced by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution is one of the most remarkable and controversial documents in the history of Marxism. Written in 1918, it brought attacks from Trotsky and Bukharin and provoked Lenin to Write The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky.




The State and Revolution


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Selected Political and Economic Writings


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Born in 1879, Eugen Varga was an immensely prolific writer who would become the most prominent Marxist economist in the Soviet Union – ‘Stalin’s economist’. This volume contains a wide and representative selection of his works written over a period of almost 40 years.










Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship


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Historians have long debated the factors most responsible for the fundamental transformation of Soviet social and political structures which occurred between the October Revolution and the emergence of the Stalinist police state. With this social and institutional history of the Red Army, Mark von Hagen provides a valuable new perspective on this critical first decade in the history of the Soviet Union.