Trotsky’s Challenge

Frederick C. Corney, Ph.D. (1997), is Associate Professor of History at The College of William & Mary. He has published a monograph, Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1927 (Cornell, 2004), articles, and book and movie reviews on Russia and historical memory.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Anatomy of a PolemicDocument 1: ‘The Lessons of October’ (14 October 1924), L. TrotskyDocument 2: ‘Who Carried Out the October Revolution? (On the “History” of October in L. Trotsky’s book 1917’ (30 October 1924), I. StepanovDocument 3: ‘How the History of October Must Not Be Written (on L. Trotsky’s book 1917)’ (2 November 1924), N. BukharinDocument 4: ‘The Komsomol and October (on Comrade Trotsky’s “The Lessons of October”)’ (12 November 1924), Central, Moscow, and Leningrad Committees of KomsomolDocument 5: ‘On the Intolerable Distortion of Historical Facts (Concerning Comrade Trotsky’s article “The Uprising”)’ (15 November 1924), D. Lebed’Document 6: ‘How Should the History of October be Approached? (Comrade Trotsky’s “The Lessons of October”)’ (19 November 1924), G. Sokol’nikov Document 7: ‘On Comrade Trotsky’s ‘The Lessons of October’’ (25 November 1924), N. BabakhanDocument 8: ‘Trotskyism or Leninism? Report by Comrade L.B. Kamenev’ (26 November 1924), L. KamenevDocument 9: ‘Trotskyism or Leninism’ (26 November 1924), I. StalinDocument 10: ‘Our Differences’ (November 1924), L. TrotskyDocument 11: ‘Bolshevism or Trotskyism (Where the Trotskyist Line is Leading)’ (30 November 1924), G. ZinovievDocument 12: ‘An Unsuccessful Depiction of the “German October” (Comrade Trotsky’s “The Lessons of October”)’ (30 November 1924), O. KuusinenDocument 13: ‘On the Lessons of Trotskyism (L. Trotsky’s book About Lenin)’ (9 December 1924), V. MolotovDocument 14: The Chkheidze Controversy (9 December 1924)Document 15: ‘The Question of the Lessons of October’ (16 December 1924), N. KrupskaiaDocument 16: ‘The October Revolution and the Tactics of Russian Communists’ (17 December 1924), I. StalinDocument 17: ‘“The Lessons of October” and the Bulgarian Communist Party’ (20 December 1924), V. KolarovDocument 18: ‘Letter to Comrades’ (21 December 1924), Leopol’d Averbakh, et al.Document 19: ‘The Autobiography of Trotskyism (instead of an afterword)’ (22 December 1924), G. SafarovDocument 20: ‘The Theory of Permanent Revolution’ (28 December 1924), N. BukharinDocument 21: ‘To All the Members of the Central Committee Who Are Enemies of Trotskyism’ (1924), N. BukharinDocument 22: ‘The New Discussion’ (28 December 1924), A. RykovDocument 23: ‘Not Every Effort is Successful’ (1925), A. AndreevDocument 24: ‘Letter to the Plenum of the CC RKP(b)’ (15 January 1925), L. Trotsky Document 25: ‘Plenum of the CC RKP(b) and TsKK regarding the Speech of Comrade Trotsky’ (17 January 1925)Document 26: ‘Mistakes in “The Lessons of October” by Comrade Trotsky’ (January 1925), S.A. PiontkovskiiDocument 27: ‘Lenin, Conspiratoriality, October’ (1925), E. KviringDocument 28: ‘The Ideological Foundations of Trotskyism’ (1925), B. KunDocument 29: ‘“The Lessons of October” and Trotskyism’ (1925), A. BubnovDocument 30: ‘The Struggle for the Party’ (January 1925), S. KanatchikovAppendix A: Introduction to ‘The Lessons of the Revolution’ (28 December 1924), Paul Levi Appendix B: ‘The Lessons of the October Experiment’ (1925), Karl Kautsky GlossaryBibliographyIndex