Written in 1936 and first translated and published in English here in 1937, this is the first edition of one of Leon Trotsky’s major works and one of the defining texts of ‘Trotskyism’. The SWP’s Pioneer Publishers would print their edition with a new introduction in 1945. Full text here.
The Revolution Betrayed: What Is The Soviet Union And Where Is It Going? by Leon Trotsky. Translated by Max Eastman. Doubleday, Doran, and Company, New York. 1937.
Contents: INTRODUCTION: The Purpose of the Present Work, I) WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED, The Principal Indices of Industrial Growth, Comparative Estimates of These Achievements, Production per Capita of the Population, II) ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE ZIGZAGS OF THE LEADERSHIP, “Military Communism”, “The New Economic Policy” (NEP) and the Course Toward the Kulak, A Sharp Turn: “The Five-Year Plan in Four Years” and “Complete Collectivization”, III) SOCIALISM AND THE STATE, The Transitional Regime, Program and Reality, The Dual Character of the Workers’ State, “Generalized Want” and the Gendarme, The “Complete Triumph of Socialism” and the “Reinforcement of the Dictatorship”, IV) THE STRUGGLE FOR THE PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOR, Money and Plan, “Socialist” Inflation, The Rehabilitation of the Ruble, The Stakhanov Movement, V) THE SOVIET THERMIDOR, Why Stalin Triumphed, The Degeneration of the Bolshevik Party, The Social Roots of Thermidor, VI) THE GROWTH OF INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL ANTAGONISMS, Want, Luxury and Speculation, The Differentiation of the Proletariat, Social Contradictions in the Collective Village, The Social Physiognomy of the Ruling Stratum, VII) FAMILY, YOUTH AND CULTURE, Thermidor in the Family, The Struggle against the Youth, Nationality and Culture, VIII) FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ARMY, From “World Revolution” to Status Quo, The League of Nations and the Communist International, The Red Army and Its Doctrines, The Abolition of the Militia and the Restoration of Officers’ Ranks, The Soviet Union in a War, IX) SOCIAL RELATIONS IN THE SOCIAL UNION, State Capitalism?, Is the Bureaucracy a Ruling Class?, The Question of the Character of the Soviet Union Not Yet Decided by History, X) THE SOVIET UNION IN THE MIRROR OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION, Work “According to Ability” and Personal Property, The Soviets and Democracy, Democracy and the Party, XI) WHITHER THE SOVIET UNION?, Bonapartism as a Regime of Crisis, The Struggle of the Bureaucracy with “the Class Enemy”, The Inevitability of a New Revolution, APPENDIX: “SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY”, The “Friends” of the Soviet Union, POSTSCRIPT. 306 pages.
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