Preliminary Reading List
Week I – The Theory of Uneven and Combined Development
Primary:
Trotsky (1932) History of the Russian Revolution, Chapter 1 – ‘The Peculiarities of Russian Development’
Trotsky (1928) The Third International after Lenin, Part I
Secondary:
David J. Romagnolo (1975) ‘The So-Called “Law” of Uneven and Combined Development’, Latin American Perspectives, 2(1): 1-31.
Week 2 – The Strategy of Permanent Revolution
Antecedents:
Parvus (1905) ‘Our Tasks‘ in Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido (translators) Witness to the Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record (Historical Materialism Book Series, Brill 2010)
Trotsky (1905) ‘Social Democracy and Revolution‘ in Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido (translators) Witness to the Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record (Historical Materialism Book Series, Brill 2010)
Formulations:
Trotsky (1931) The Permanent Revolution – ‘Introduction to the First (Russian) Edition’
Week 3 – Imperialism and the First World War
Trotsky (1914) ‘War and the International’, Preface
Trotsky (1915) ‘Nation and Economy’
Trotsky (1939) ‘Lenin on Imperialism’
Week 4 – On Violence and Terrorism
Primary:
Trotsky (1920) Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Kautsky
Secondary:
‘Introduction’ in Slavoj Zizek Presents Trotsky: Terrorism and Communism (Verso, 2010).
Week 5 – On Fascism
Primary:
Trotsky (1933) ‘What is National Socialism?’
Trotsky (1934) ‘Bonapartism and Fascism’
Secondary:
Wistrich, Robert (1976) ‘Leon Trotsky’s Theory of Fascism’, Journal of Contemporary History, 11(4):pp. 157-184.
Week 6 – On the Soviet Union
Primary:
Trotsky (1936) The Revolution Betrayed, Chapter 5 & 9, 11
Secondary:
Anderson, Perry (1983) ‘Trotsky’s Interpretation of Stalinism’, New Left Review, (I)139: pp. 49-58
Week 7 – On Art, Literature and Morality
Primary:
Trotsky, ‘Questions of Culture, Literature, Art, Morals’ in Isaac Deutscher (ed) The Age of Permanent Revolution: A Trotsky Anthology, pp. 299-331
Secondary:
Deutscher, Isaac (1959) The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky, 1921-1929, Chapter 3 ‘Not by Politics Alone’
Week 8 – Contemporary Extensions
Rosenberg, Justin (1996) ‘Isaac Deutscher and the Lost History of International Relations’, New Left Review(I) 215: 3–15. Can be found at http://www.justinrosenberg.webspace.virginmedia.com/Uneven/Writings.html
Barker, Colin (2006) ‘Beyond Trotsky: Extending Combined and Uneven Development’ in Bill Dunn and Hugo Radice (eds) 100 years of Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects (London: Pluto),78–87.
Rosenberg, Justin (2010) ‘Basic problems in the Theory of Uneven and Combined Development. Part II: Unevenness and Political Multiplicity’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 23: 1, 165-189. Can be found at http://www.justinrosenberg.webspace.virginmedia.com/Uneven/Writings.html
Links
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