A collection of the first English translations of several articles by Julius Martov (1873-1923) on Marx, the state, and Soviet power. Martov was the leading ideological leader of the Mensheviks, though he started political life working with closely as comrades and personal friends with Lenin in St. Petersburg’s ‘League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class’ and ‘Iskra’ in the 1890s’. A Menshevik Internationalist during the war and on the left of the Mensheviks during the Revolution, he was a member of the Soviet through its Second National Congress, he was however principally opposed to Soviet power, though he would defend it against the Whites during the Civil War. He left Russia in 1920 for medical care and lived in Germany until his death in 1923. These are the first English-language translations of articles written by Martov on the years between October Revolution and his exile in 1920. International Review was an independent Marxist journal edited by Herman Gerson, pen name Integer.

The State and the Socialist Revolution by Julius Martov. Translated by Integer. International Review Publishers, New York. 1938.

Contents: Foreword by Integer, I) THE IDEOLOGY OF ‘SOVIETISM’ (1919), The Mysticism Of The Soviet Regime, Dictatorship of the Minority, Dictatorship over the Proletariat, Metaphysical Materialism and Dialectical Materialism, II) DECOMPOSITION OR CONQUEST OF THE STATE (1919), Marx and the State, The Commune of 1871, Marx and the Commune, III) MARX AND THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT (1918). 64 pages.

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