* booknotes Trotsky... again The Ideological Legacy of L.D. Trotsky: History and Contemporary Times, materials from the International Conference on Leon Trotsky, Moscow November 10-12, 1994. Marilyn Vogt-Downey writes...
First published in Russian, this collection offers for the first time a wide range of educated opinions by scholars in the former Soviet Union about this controversial leader of the Russian revolution whose contributions were suppressed or falsified for decades by Kremlin authorities.
This collection contains useful information for historians, economists, sociologists, and all interested in the history of Russia in the 20th century.
In one of the two long articles, Mikhail Illarionovich Voyeikov, professor of economics at the Russian Academy of Sciences examines Trotsky's arguments in the inner-party disputes of the 1920s and his overall positions compared to other Bolshevik leaders such as Nikholai Bukharin.
In the other long article, Alexei Viktorovich Gusev, a young professor of history at Moscow State University, examines the positions of the Left Opposition on economic and political questions and the relationship of the opposition's positions to official policies.
Albert Mikhailovich Yeryomin, a professor of economics at the Russian Academy of Sciences examines Trotsky's contribution to solving economic problems during the Civil War period and the 1920s and his attitudes toward economic planning and the collectivisation of agriculture.
Nikolai Sergeevich Shukhov, also an economics professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences, discusses Trotsky's ideas about the permanent revolution and his appreciation of the importance of the support of the peasantry for the maintenance of Soviet power and the relationship between planning and the market.
Valentine Karlovich Mamutov, a professor of economics and law at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences defends the Russian revolution as part of a long-term world revolutionary process and argues that the revolution must be continued and not reversed, highlighting Trotsky's contributions illuminating the historic processes.
Anatoly Pavlovich Butenko, a professor of political sciences at Moscow State University; Mil Nikolaevich Gretsky, professor of philosophy at the Russian Academy of Sciences; and Andrei Aleksandrovich Kuryonyshev, a scientific worker at the State Historical Museum and political activist all examine Trotsky's analysis of the class nature of the Soviet state and of the Stalin regime from a historic point of view and in terms of contemporary view and in terms of contemporary 30 International Viewpoint #305 November 1998 developments.
Oleg Borisovich Dubrovsky, a Ukrainian coal miner and activist from Depopetrovsk in Ukraine presents an extraordinary examination of Trotsky's analysis of the Ukrainian national question and argues for the critical importance of these ideas with respect to the national question today.
Vladimir Borisovich Volodin, a young worker from Novosibirsk, presents a concise explanation of the conditions in the former Soviet Union and the world today, applying ideas of Marx and Trotsky.
This collection also includes contributions by conference participants from Europe, Britain, and the United States.
All the participants agree on the enormous value of the study of the works of Trotsky although there is consi derable diversity of opinion.
Trotsky's writings were banned in Russia until the late 1980s. This first conference on Trotsky in Russia was sponsored by "Scholars for Democracy and Socialism" and the Centre on Problems of Democracy and Socialism of the Economics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The original Russianlanguage edition of this collection was published by the Committee in Moscow in 1996.
The Committee for the Study of Leon Trotsky's Legacy, which has prepared this English-language edition, sponsored subsequent conferences in Russia in 1995, 1996, and 1997. The next conference will be in 1999. * Cost: US$8 plus postage (USS3 in North America, overseas US$6). For more information, or to order thi volume, contact Marilyn Vogt-Downey at <[email protected]> new lett review 230
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